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TITLE 1 



OF THE 



EEVISED LAWS OF VERMONT, 1880, 



EELATING TO 



Public Instruction. 




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Publisfjeti fig autprftg. 



EUTLAND : 

TUTTLE & CO., OFFICIAL PRINTERS AND STATIONERS 

TO THE STATE OF VERMONT. 

1881. 



PREFACE. 



This pamphlet is printed under authority of No. 142, Acts 
of 1880, Sec. 5, for the use of school districts. 

CLAEENCE H. PITKIN, 
HIRAM A. HUSE, 
ASHTON E. WILLARD, 

Commissioners to edit the Revised Laws. 

MoNTPELiER, July, 1881. 



TITLE 10. 



PUBLIC INSTEUCTIOK 



Chapter 27. — State and town superintendents. 

Chapter 28. — Normal schools. 

Chapter 29. — Teachers' certificates. 

Chapter 30. — Organization, officers, and meetings of school 
districts. 

Chapter 31. — School-houses. 

Chapter 32. — Alterations in school districts. 

Chapter 33. — Maintenance of schools. 

Chapter 34. — Sending children to school out of the district in 
which they reside, and to academies. 

Chapter 35. — Graded, central, and union schools. 

Oha'Pter 36. — Town system. 

Chapter 37. — Text-books. 

Chapter 38. — Registers and returns. 

Chapter 39. — School taxes and school moneys. 

Chapter 40. — Compulsory attendance ; general provisions. 

Chapter 41. — Instruction of the deaf, dumb, blind, idiotic and 
feeble-minded. 



152 



SUPERINTENDENTS . 



[TiTLS 10. 



Chapter 27. 



STATE AND TOWN SUPERINTENDENTS. 



Section 

State Superintendext. 

452. Election ; vacancy how filled. 

453. General duties. 

454. To hold teachers' Institutes. 

455. May hold educational meetings. 



Sectiox 
456, 457. Report, how distributed. 

Town Superintendents. 

458. Term of office. 

459. General duties. 

460. 461. Account for services. 



Election ; vacancy. 

1874, No. 33,^^6 1,2,8; 
1870, No. 21; G. S. 
22, ^ 1 ; 1856, No. 5, 
^,5 1,9; 1845, No. 37, 
f3; 1833, No. 19, U ; 
1827, No. 23, ^ 16. 

General duties. 

1874, No. 33, 62; 1874, 
No. 36, n ; 1872, No. 
18, 5 6; G. S.22, >5 3 ; 
1856, No. 5, §3; 1849, 
No. 14, 6 2; 1845, No. 
27, \^ 7. 



Teachers' institutes. 

1874, No. 33, y^ 3 ; 1869, 
No. 7 ; 1868, No. 53, 
§ 1 ; 1867, No. 69, 61 ; 
1863, No. 27 ; G. R. 22, 
§ 23 ; 1856, No. 5, 6 3 ; 
1849, No. 14, 6 3; 1845, 
No. 37, ^ 5. 



Educational meetings. 

1878, No. 124. 



Report. 

1874, No. 33, 6 7; G. 
S.22, H 3, 4; 1858, 
No. 1, f 12; 1856, No. 
5,^53,5; 1845, No. 
37,6 7. 



Sec. 452. The general assembly shall elect, at each bien- 
nial session, a state superintendent of education. A vacancy 
in said office shall be filled by the governor. 

Sec. 453. The state superintendent shall devote, his whole 
time to promoting the educational interests of the state, and 
shall visit every part thereof during each year, deliver lectures 
upon the subject of education, confer with town superintend- 
ents, visit schools with them, and furnish them blank certifi- 
cates for teachers, and blank forms for collecting school 
statistics. 

Sec. 454. The state superintendent shall annually, upon a 
Avritten application for that purpose of twenty-five teachers in 
any county, except Grand Isle and Essex, where the applica- 
tion of fifteen shall be suflicient, hold one teachers' institute in 
such county, for a term not exceeding three days, at a time as 
far as practicable when the common schools are not in session. 
He may employ assistants to give efficiency and interest to such 
institutes, and a sum not exceeding thirty dollars a day paid by 
him for their services and for advertising and other necessary 
expenses, shall be paid to him upon the order of the auditor of 
accounts. 

Sec. 455. When application is not made previous to the 
first day of July by the requisite numlier of school teachers, for 
a teachers' institute, the state superintendent, if after consulta- 
tion with the superintendents of the county, he judges best so 
to do, may hold in such county, in places where proper arrange- 
ments can be made, not less than two nor more than five edu- 
cational meetings, for one day and evening each, and may 
employ suitable persons as assistants in the meetings ; and for 
such assistance and the expense of advertising, he shall be paid 
from the state treasury. not more than twelve dollars for each 
meeting. 

Sec. 456. The state superintendent shall prepare and pre- 
sent to the general assembly, on the first day of each biennial 
session, a report of his official acts for the preceding two years, 
and a statement of the condition of schools and of the expendi- 
ture of the school money therein, with such suggestions for the 
improvement of the schools as he deems proper. 



Chap. 28.] 



NORMAL SCHOOLS. 



153 



Sec. 457. Not more than three thousand five hiuidred fXtUiT*'*"''' ''''" 
copies of his report shall be printed, and he shall distribute W4 No 33, j 7; g. 
them as follows : one copy to each member of the general as- i," ^ 12. ' ' 
sembly ; one copy to each town superintendent ; one copy to 
each district clerk ; and one copy to the principal of each 
graded, union, or high school; and the remaining copies shall 
be deposited in the state library for reference, exchange or sale. 
The copies for distribution, except for members of the general 
assembly, shall be forwarded to the town clerks, who shall 
deliver them to the persons entitled thereto. 

TOWN SUPERINTENDENT. 

Sec. 458. The term of oflSce of a town superintendent shall Term o^^om^^ ^ ^ 
begin on the first day of April next after his election and con- 15, § 13 ;' 1858, No. 1, 



tinue for one 3'ear and until a successor is chosen. 



§ 1 ; 1845, No. 37, M ^ 
1833, No. 19, § 1 ; 1827, 
No. 23, § 3. 

Sec. 459. Town superintendents shall visit each public General duties, 
school in their towns, at least once a year, shall inform them- no!37,14; 1833, No. 
selves of the discipline and progress in study in such schools, I V^ IgU^^' ''^23' V3 
advise the teachers, and adopt the necessary measures for the ^ ' ' °" '^ " 
examination, regulation, and improvement in learning, of such 
schools. 

Sec. 460. Each town superintendent of schools shall, at the Account for services, 
close of his term of ofiice make a detailed account of his ser- §. 22, § 9'; I8"6i! No. 9, 
vices, stating the date, time spent and kind of service, and the f\V]|^5'^^No ^T^'/ii 
number of districts in which a school has been taught during 
the year preceding, and shall make oath to the correctness of 
the same before a justice, who shall certify thereto. Such ac- 
count shall be presented to the selectmen of the town, and the 
selectmen shall allow so much of said account as is just and 
draw an order on the toAvn treasurer therefor. The account 
when audited shall be placed on file in the town alerk's office. 

Sec. 461. Each town superintendent shall file a duplicate onpUcate to be med. 
copy of his account in the office of the town clerk on or before ■ • -'• ^ 
the day previous to the annual town meeting. 



Chapter 28. 



NORMAL SCHOOLS 



Section 

462. Normal schools continued till 1890. 

463. Appointment and removal of teach- 

ers. 

464. Courses of study. 

465. State aid refused unless ^ 464 com- 

plied with. 

466. Examinations. 

467. Towns entitled to scholarships. 

468. 469. Town superintendent may ap- 



Section 

point or recommend for scholar- 
ship; qualifications of appointee. 

470. Vacant scholarships, assignment of. 

471. Amount of scholarships ; conditions 

of payment 

472. 473. State appropriations. 

474. Training school department of graded 
schools. 



Sec. 462. The normal schools at Eandolph, Johnson and schools continued. 
Castleton are continued until August, 1890. I874' No! 34;' 1876, 

No. '20, 6 1 ; i866, No. 
1, ^§ I, 7. 



154 



NORMAL SCHOOLS." 



[Title 10. 



Teachers. 



Sec. 463. The state superintendent of education shall 
No. 20,^ 2;' 1866, No! nominate and approve a principal teacher and a lirst assistant 
i.if2. teacher for each normal school, and shall withdraw such ap- 

proval when the interests of the school demand ; and no person 
not so nominated, or the approval of whom is withdrawn, shall 
be employed as such principal or first assistant ; but the prin- 
cipal may select his other assistants and provide for the dis- 
cipline of the school. 



COUESES OF STUDY. 

Courses of study. Sec. 464. There shall be two courses of study in a normal 

1874^ No. 35, i I; 1866', school, and no more. Each course shall contain such branches 

No. 1, ^ 3. as the trustees of the school and the state superintendent shall 

agree upon ; but no foreign language, ancient or modern, shall 

be included therein. No study or subject not included in the 

established courses shall be taught in a normal school. 

Sec. 465. The state superintendent shall ascertain each 
term of half year whether the provisions of the preceding sec- 
tion have been complied with, and in case of non-compliance 
on the part of a school, or of the trustees or teachers thereof, 
shall Avithhold the certificates upon which the auditor of ac- 
counts is authorized to draw his order for the payment of 
moneys to such school. 



No state aid unless § 
464 complied witli. 

1878, No. 113, ^^ 4. 



Examinations. 

1874, No. 35, 
1868, No. 31 ; 
No. 1, ^ 5. 



« 2, 3 ; 
1866, 



Each town entitled to 
one. 

1878, No. 113, 6 5; 
1876, No. 39, § 3. 

Town superintendents 
may appoint ; who may 
lie appointed. 

1876, No. 39, ^ 4, 



EXAMINATIONS. 

*Sec. 466, The examination for admission to a normal 
school shall be controlled by the trustees of such school and 
the state superintendent. The examination for graduation 
shall be conducted by a board consisting of the state superin- 
tendent, the principal of the normal school, and a practical 
teacher who shall be annually appointed by the governor from 
the congressional district in which such school is located, and 
who shall receive four dollars a day and his traveling expenses 
while in the discharge of such duties. Such board shall attend 
and assist at such examination ; and shall grant certificates of 
of graduation to all who pass the required examination in the 
first course or both courses, but may revoke said certificate 
upon cause shown. 

SCHOLARSHIPS. 

Sec. 467. Each town shall be entitled to a scholarship in a 
normal school, and a person appointed to a scholarship may 
attend the normal school in either of the congressional districts. 

Sec. 468. The town superintendent may appoint to a 
scholarship, for the period required to complete a course of 
study in the school, any person who is an inhabitant of the 
town, of good character, fifteen years of age or more, who de- 
clares it to be his purpose to complete at least one of the 
courses of study in the normal school, and to teach in the com- 
mon schools of the state for two years after graduation ; and 
upon passing the examination for admission to the school, such 
person shall be entitled to the privileges thereof. The town 



Chap. 28.] SCHOLARSHIPS — APPROPRIATIONS. 155 

superintendent shall notify the trustees of the school of such 
appointment, before the first day of the term in which the 
appointment is to take effect. 

Sec. 469. If the scholarship of the town is already filled Town superintendents 

f / may recommend. 

through apponitment by himselt or by his predecessor, he may 1876. No. 39, ^s 4. 
recommend for scholarship to the trustees of either of the nor- 
mal schools, any person whom he could appoint to the scholar- 
ship of his town. 

Sec. 470. A scholarship vacant by the failure of the town Tacant scholarships ; 
superintendent to appoint a suitable person, or by the unex- igyg^'No!'* is] ^ 5 ; 
cused absence of the holder of the scholarship, may be assigned, 1876, No. 39, § 5. 
by the trustees, for one term only, to any person recommended 
by a town superintendent, and who passes the required exam- 
ination. But no town shall have more than ten scholarships in 
one term, and the total number of scholarships in the three 
schools shall not exceed the number of towns in the state. 

Sec. 471. A scholarship shall be reckoned at twelve dol- Amount of scholarship; 

1 1 !/• -I J_^ J 1 ^ 1 111 conditions of payment. 

lars a halt year; and the trustees ot each normal school may i876, No. 39, ^^2, 3. 
present their claim to the auditor of accounts in the months of 
June and December for such sum as will be produced by the 
number of scholarships filled in their school for the half year 
then current. The state superintendent, during each half year, 
shall examine the records of each normal school, and if he finds 
that the scholarships have been granted according to law and 
only in such numbers as the law allows, and that the provi- 
sions of law respecting courses of study have been complied - 
with, shall give his certificate to that effect ; and the auditor 
shall draw his order on the treasurer of the state for the amount 
of the claim presented by the trustees only when the claim is 
accompanied by such a certificate from the state superin- 
tendent. 

APPROPRIATIONS. 

Sec, 472. Five hundred dollars a year is appropriated to Regular appropriation, 
each normal school, to be expended by the trustees thereof |gy^';^°'3|^'.|^.^i'gy.; 
under the direction of the state superintendent, in aiding such No. 20, ^s i; i870, Nu.' 
schools ; and the auditor of accounts shall draw his order ' ^ 
on the treasurer of the state, for one-half of the above named 
sum in each of the months of June and December, on the pre- 
sentation by the trustees of such school of their claim therefor, 
with a certificate of the state superintendent that the school 
has complied with the provisions of law respecting normal 
schools. 

Sec. 473. If, in addition to all sums received from the conditional appropri- 
state by direct appropriation, from state scholarships, from i876""no. 39, ^^ 6. 
tuition and from the rent of county grammar school lands, the 
trustees of a normal school shall, in any year, furnish and use, 
under the direction of the state superintendent, for the cur- 
rent expenses of the school, the sum of five hundred dollars, 
they shall receive from the state an eqilal sum , which shall be 
used in paying for instruction in such school. The auditor of 
accounts shall draw his order for the payment of such sum in 



156 



STATE CERTIFICATES. 



[Title 10. 



half yearly installments, in June and December, upon the 
receipt of the claim of the trustees therefor accompanied l)y a 
certiticate from the state superintendent that the condition upon 
which such sum is appropriated has been complied with. 



Training schools. 

1876, No. 49, ^S^ h 2. 



TRAINING SCHOOL DEPARTMENT OF GRADED SCHOOLS. 

Sec. 474. A graded school organized in accordance with 
a special act of the general assembly, and situated in a county 
in which there is no normal school, may establish, in connection 
with such graded school, a training school department for the 
instruction and training of teachers. The state superintendent 
shall establish two courses of study in such training school, 
similar to those of normal schools. The examining board for 
such training school shall be composed of the state superin- 
tendent, the principal of the school and the examiner appointed 
for the normal school in the same congressional district. Such 
board shall have the same powers and be liable to the same 
duties as the examining board of a normal school. 



Chapter 29. 



TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES. 



Section 

State Certificates. 

475. Certificates of graduation from nor- 

mal or training school, effect of. 

476. Certificate, how renewed. 

County Certificates. 

477. County examining board, how con- 

stituted ; return of names ; clerk. 

478. Board to be paid for services and 

expenses. 

479. Examinations to be held on applica- 

tion ; notice. 

480. Requirements of examination. 

481. Qualification for admission to. 

482. Certificates to issue to those passing 

examination. 

483. Certificate, how renewed. 
4S4. Duty of clerk of board. 

Town Certificates. 

485. Town superintendents to meet annu- 

ally. 

486. Examination questions fixed upon 

and distributed. 



Section 
487 Examinations, holding of. 

488. Certificates to be granted, when. 

489. When office of superintendent vacant, 

who to grant certificates. 

490. Town superintendent, how to obtain 

certificate. 

491. Certificates how long of force. 

492. Names of persons to whom certifi- 

cates given, to be returned to state 
superintendent. 

General Provisions. 

493. Teachers holding certificates, to so 

inform superintendent. 

494. Teacher to obtain certificate before 

opening school or contract void. 

495. District may recover of committee 

money paid to teacher without cer- 
tificate. 

496. Principals of graded schools do not 

require cei'tificates. 

497. 498. Certificates may be revoked by 

town superintendent. 



Sec. 475. A 



STATE CERTIFICATES. 

certificate of graduation 



from the lower 



Certificates of gradua- 
tion ; effect of. /• • i i i . i - 1 j? ^ • • 

1876, No. 49, ^U; 1874, course of a normal school, or the lower course oi a training 
No.35, ^S3; 1866, No. ^^^^^^1 department of a graded school, shall be a license to 
teach in the common schools of the state for five years from the 
date thereof; and a certificate of graduation from the higher 
course of such normal school or training school shall be a license 
to teach in the common schools of the state for ten years from 
the date thereof. 



Chap. 29.] COUNTY CERTIFICATES. 157 

Sec. 476. A graduate of a normal school or training school ^^il?^^^" of certificate, 
department of a graded school, at the end of the term for which ' ^ °' 
such graduate was licensed to teach, may be admitted to an 
examination in the second course of study in said normal school 
or training school, on the presentation of testimonials showing 
to the satisfaction of the examinino; board that such OTaduate 
has taught successfully for twenty weeks during each year of 
the period, or for an equivalent number of weeks during the 
whole period ; and on passing a satisfactory examination in said 
course such person shall receive a license to teach for ten years 
in the common schools of the state. 

COUNTY CERTIFICATES. 

Sec. 477. The town superintendents at their annual county Examining board, how 
meetings shall choose by ballot one of their own number and i876, No. 50, ^s^^2* 8. 
two practical teachers of the county, to constitute an examin- 
ing board for the county. And the secretary of said meeting 
shall, within five days after the meeting, make a return to the 
state superintendent, and to the county clerk, of the names of 
the persons so elected. The town superintendent on each 
board shall be the clerk of the board. 

Sec. 478. Members of the county examining board shall [g^g "^^^H^^"*!*- 
receive three dollars a day for each day spent in attending and 
in going to and from the county examination, and their actual 
and necessary traveling expenses ; and the clerk of the board 
shall receive pay for necessary advertising, stationery and 
postage. 

Sec. 479. Such board shall hold a public examination at Examinations, uoid. 
some convenient place in the county, for two days, on appli- i876, No. 50, ^'> 3. 
cation of five persons qualified for admission to such examina- 
tion. Notice of the time and place of holding such examination 
shall be published in all the newspapers of the county at least 
two weeks prior to such examination. Two such examinations 
may be held in the county during the year if properly applied 
for. 

Sec. 480. Candidates for county licenses must be exam- Requirements of exam- 
ined in all the branches required by law to be taught in the i876, No. 50, ^<; 5. 
common schools of the state, in drawing, and in methods of 
teaching. The examination shall be in writing in not less than 
six subjects. 

Sec. 481. Candidates for admission to a county examina- Qualifications for a.i- 
tion must be twenty years of age, if men, and eighteen years, i876, No. *50, § 4. 
if women, must bring testimonials from the town superintend- 
ents who granted their certificates and from the committee 
who hired them showing that they have taught successfully in 
the common schools of the state for at least ten weeks and 
approving their moral character ; or it shall be a sufiicient 
qualification for admission to such examination if the candidate 
holds a county license granted in another county. 

Sec. 482. Candidates passing a satisfactory examination who entitled to certifi- 
shall receive a license to teach in the common schools of the i876, No. 5o, § 6. 
county for five years. 



158 TOWN CERTIFICATES. [Title 10. 

Renewal of certificate. Sec. 483. The holder of a liceiise granted by a county 
' ^' ' ^ ■ examining board, at tlie expiration of the term for which such 
license was granted, upon showing to the satisfaction of the 
examining board that he has taught satisfactorily sixty weeks 
during the term of such license, shall be qualified for admission 
to a regular county examination, and passing it satisfactorily 
shall receive a county license for a further term of five years. 
Duty of clerk of board. Sec. 484. The clcrk of the examining board shall keep a 
18/6, No. 50. ^^ 8. i-ecord of examinations held by the board, and of the names, 
ages and residences of all persons by them licensed, and of the 
questions nsed in the examination. Such record shall be delivered 
by each clerk to his successor in office, and shall be always 
open for the inspection of citizens of the comity. The clerk 
shall, within five days after each meeting of the board, file in 
the ofiice of the county clerk and forward to the state superin- 
tendent, the date of each license granted, and the name, age 
and residence of each person licensed. 

TOWN CEETIFICATES. 

Town superintendents Sec. 485. The town Superintendents in eacli county shall 

to meet annually. ,, j i r> j rr\ i • t m t t-» • 

1874, No. 36, 6">j 1,2; meet annually Oil the first iuesday in April. In Jiennmgton 
1870, No. 12, ^ 1. county the meeting shall be held in the town house at Arling- 
ton, in the other counties at the county court house. The 
superintendents so assembled shall choose one of their number 
to preside at the meeting, and a secretary who shall keep a 
record of the proceedings. 
To fix examination Sec. 486. Such mcetiiio- shall decide upon a set of ques- 

1874, No. 36, ^>,u, 2; tious to be used in the written examination of teachers, and 
1870, No. 12, §^ 1, 3. qI^qW fix the standard of qualifications of teachers for the ensuing- 
year. The secretary shall have printed, at the expense of the 
state, and shall distribute to each town superintendent lists of 
the questions so decided upon. 
?,?,^„™l4*^',*^^^' „ ,o.. Sec. 487. Each town superintendent shall hold two public 

1870, No. 12, s*" 2; 1866, ... r- . i n • ..i ^i r \ n 

No. 8; G. s. 22, ^^^U3, examinations or teachers annually in the months ot April or 
M;i859,No.3i; 1858, ]y[jiy r^i-^j Q^jtober or Novciiiber. Said examinations shall be 

No. 1, (Ji S; Ibio, No. 11,, 11 TIT 

37,^ 12; 1833, No. 19, held Oil the same day throughout the county, and public notice 

182^ ^No.' 23°i 3^' ^ "^ ' ^^' ^^^® time and place of holding the same shall be given by 

each superintendent. No examination shall be held at any 

other time except for the accommodation of teachers prevented 

by sickness or other unavoidable circumstance from attending 

the regular examination ; and superintendents shall receive fifty 

cents from each person applying for examination at any other 

time than at the regular public examination. 

Certificates, when Sec. 488. A towii Superintendent may grant a cei'tificate 

G. s. 22, ^<; 11; 1845, of qualification to teach in the public schools of the town, to a 

'19°h' is'^^No'n^' person who passes such examination satisfactorily, provided the 

^s 3; 1827, No. 23, ^ 3. superintendent has satisfactory evidence of the good moral 

35Vt. 623. 41 vt. 353. character of such person and of his capacity for the government 

and instruction of schools. 
tendent*'^acanV"^^"'"" ^^^- 489. In casc of a vacaucy in the ofiice of superintend- 
1866, No. 7. ' ent of a town, the superintendent of an adjoining town may 



Chap. 29.] GENERAL PROVISIONS. 159 

examine, and finding- them satisfactorily qualified may grant 
certificates to persons desiring to teach in the first mentioned 
town. 

Sec. 490. A town superintendent desiring to teach in the tottd superintendent, 
town where he resides, may apply to the superintendent of an cat^, *<'*•*''"» <'**>^t'*'- 
adjoining town, who shall examine him, and finding him satis- ^q^q^^' ^ ^^' ^^^^' 
factorily qualified shall grant him a certificate, which shall 
authorize such applicant to teach in the town where he resides. 

Sec. 491 . All certificates granted by town superintendents certificates, how long 
shall be good until the first day of June in the calendar year i878*'no. 120 ; 1870, 
folio winof the year in which they were granted. No. I2,j 2; g. s. 22, 

o J _ J & ^ 11; 1845, No. 37, H- 

Sec. 492. Town superintendents shall, on or before the Return to state super in. 
first day of February in each year, lodge in the town clerk's g!'s*!'22, ^s 15 ; isso, 
office and forward to the state superintendent a list of the names No. 42, ^ 1. 
of persons to whom they have granted certificates during the 
preceding year, and the date of each certificate. 



geneeal provisions. 

Sec. 493. Every teacher hokling a county or state certificate Teacher holding 
shall notify the superintendent of the town in Avhich he is to superiiftendeVt." ' ^ 
teach that he holds such certificate before commencing his school, ^^^^' ^°- ^^^' ^ ^• 
and shall submit the same to the inspection of such superintend- 
ent when it is called for. 

Sec. 494. Every teacher of a district school, except prin- unless teacher hascer- 

T -, , T T . ,1 1 11 1 i. • ^L-i J. tiflcate, contract void. 

cipals or graded and union schools, shall obtain a certmcate 1374, No. 37, *,u ; g. 
before he opens such school ; and contracts for teaching between ^,- ^^^•,'^^U^.' ^^' ,V^*^ 

-, , , • n »i IT- • 1 1 -.rso.o/.iJJ'l, S; \.h66, 

the prudential committee or a school district and a school No. 19, J i; 1827, No. 
teacher shall be void if such teacher does not obtain a certificate i|'yt^"i92. 29 vt.433. 
before opening school . 20 vt! 495! 30 vt! oSs! 

^ ° 26Vt. 115. 34Vt. 270. 

27Vt.281. 41Vt. 353. 
28Vt. 575. 46Vt.452. 

Sec. 495. If a prudential committee of a school district committee liable to dis- 
pays out moneys of the district to a teacher employed therein teacher^ ™henf ' 
who has not the certificate required by law, such committee n'o. 39 
shall be liable to such district for moneys so paid, to be recovered 
in an action on the case ; and the town agent of the town shall 
prosecute such actions to efiect at the expense and in the name 
and for the benefit of such district. 

Sec. 496. Principals of graded and union schools shall J^j«^«p««°_"' ''*^« »* 
not be required to procure a certificate, and contracts for teach- 1874, No. 37, § 1. 
ing made between the trustees of a graded school district or 
prudential committee of a union school district and their prin- 
cipal teacher, shall be valid without such certificate. 

Sec. 497. When, upon personal examination of schools, a Town certificate may 
town superintendent becomes satisfied that a teacher holding a 186^5,'^No. 27 ; g. s. 22, 
town certificate is incompetent to teach or govern his school, h 1S"> 1858, No. 1, §4. 
or is setting an evil example before it, the superintendent may 
revoke such certificate by filing in the town clerk's office a 
written revocation, giving the reasons therefor, and by deliver- 
ing a copy thereof to the prudential committee and to the 
teacher. The certificate thus revoked shall be thereafter void : 



160 



ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS. [Title 10. 



Also state and county 
certificates. 

1876, No. 50, § 10. 



and the teacher's contract with the school district shall become 
void therefrom, and the prudential committee shall not pay 
such teacher for services thereafter performed miless by vote 
of the district. 

Sec. 498. A town superintendent may, for any cause for 
which he may revoke a town certificate, annul for his term of 
office and the town of his residence only, the effect of a county 
or state certificate and by the same proceedings and with the 
same effect. 



Chapter 30. 

ORGANIZATION, OFFICERS AND MEETINGS OF SCHOOL DIS- 
TRICTS. 



Section 

499. Towns to be divided into school dis- 

tricts. 

500. Districts to be numbered; descrip- 

tion, &c., to be recorded. 

501. 502. Districts may be formed of parts 

of different towns ; which town to 

determine text-books. 
Districts in organized towns, how 

organized. 
In unorganized towns and gores. 
Inhabitants of one town may be set 

to district in another ; their rights 

and liabilities. 
Districts formed under previous laws 

to retain powers. 
School district to be corporation. 
Officers and term of office. 
Prudential committee, how may be 

chosen. 
510. Town collector may be elected dis- 
trict collector. 



603. 



504. 
505. 



506. 

507. 
508. 
509. 



Section 

511. Collector to give bonds. 

512. If he fails to, office vacant. 

513. Moderator's duty ; moderator pro 

tempore. 

514. Duties of treasurer and auditor. 

515. Duty of prudential committee. 

516. Committee in clerk's absence to exer- 

cise his duties. 

517. Clerk's duties. 

518. Vacancies in offices how filled. 

519. Meetings, when held; by whom no- 

tified. 

520. Penalty for neglect to notify meet- 

ing. 

521. RequLi-ements of notice. 

522. "Meeting" deemed to denote meet- 

ing legally warned. 

523. Voters in district meeting, who are ; 

right to vote, how determined. 

524. Women may vote and hold office. 



Division of towns into 
districts. 

G. S. 22, v^ 20; R. S. 
18, § 2; 1827, No. 23, 
^2; R. 1797, p. 493, § 
1; R. 1787, p. 136, ^^ 1. 
SVt. 402. 25Vt 311. 
lOVt.480. 33Vt.219. 

Districts to be num- 
bered, &c. 

G. S. 22, ^ 21; R. S. 
18, ^ 3 ; 1827, No. 23, 
^S2. 



District lying in two 
towns. 

G. S. 22, iS;^ 24,25; 
1845, No. 37, §6; 
R. S. 18, j 5; 1827, 
No. 23, § 8; 1808, p. 
54, § 1. 
34 Vt. 156. 



Which town to select 
text-books, &c. 

1880, No. 95, § 2. 



Sec 499. When the inhabitants of a town can not be 
conveniently accommodated in one district, such town shall, at 
a meeting warned for the purpose, divide the town into several 
districts and determine their limits. 

Sec 500. The districts so formed shall be numbered from 
number one upwards, and shall be designated by the name of 
their respective numbers ; and their numbers and descriptions, 
and alterations made therein, shall be recorded in the office of 
the town clerk. 

Sec 501. Any number of inhabitants of adjoining towns 
may by a concurrent vote of such towns form the territory 
occupied by such inhabitants into one school district. A dis- 
trict so formed shall, for purposes of visitation, returns, and 
the examination of school teachers and for the adoption of 
text-books, be held to belong to the county and town in which 
tlie school-house is situated. 

Sec 502. Whenever it shall occur tlmt the school-house 
is located partly in each town from which a fractional district 



Chap. 30.] SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICERS. 161 

is composed, the town furnishing the greater number of schol- 
ars in said district shall have the precedence to select text- 
books and to examine teachers. 

Sec. 603. When it is necessary to organize a school dis- Districts, how organ- 
tuict, three or more voters of such proposed district may apply Q®g 22 ss 22 24- r 
in writing to the selectmen of the town in which such district S. I8, §§i,5; 1827, 
is located, or, if the district contains parts of two or more p.°i54/0 . p^.^i'7J7^_^p' 
towns, to the selectmen of either town; and the selectmen "^94, ^ 2 ; r. 1787,' p. 
shall call a meeting in such district by posting up a notice 11 vt. 607. 
thereof, specifying the time and place and the business of the 
meeting, in one or more of the most public places in such dis- 
trict at least seven days before the time therein specified. One 
of the selectmen shall preside in the meeting until a moderator 
and clerk are chosen, when the district shall be held to be 
organized. 

Sec. 504. The selectmen of a town, on the application of organization, in gores 
three or more voters in an adjoining unorganized town or gore, G.**s"."22f^"23f 1845,'*' 
may organize, in the manner provided in the preceding section, ^°- ^^• 
as many school districts as are required in such unorganized 
town or gore, and may define their limits and number them 
from number one upwards ; and the selectmen shall be paid a 
reasonable compensation for their services by the petitioners. 

Sec. 505. A town, by vote in town meeting, may set setting persons to ad- 
persons residing in the town to a school district in an adjoin- {5"s"22**'f "27 fis; 
ing town or gore, if such district, by vote, consents to receive ^845, No. 34; k. s. 
them ; and persons so united to a school district shall have the ^ 8\ 1826, No. 42." ' 
same rights and be subject to the same liabilities as the other ^q"^*- ^o|- 34 v^"?-^' 
inhabitants of the district, and as to taxation for school pur- 21 vt. 402! 37vt.i96! 
poses shall be treated as belonging to such district. ^^ ^^' ^^^- ^^ ^^' ^''^■ 

Sec. 506. A school district organized according to pre- Districts formed under 
vious laws shall remain a legal school district, subject to the g"s.*'22, 'f 56 ; R. s. 
provisions of this title. 18, § 24. 

Sec. 507. When a school district is organized it shall be District to be corpora- 
a body politic and corporate, with the powers of a corporation as". 22, ^^29, 3i; r. 
for maintaining schools in such district, and by its covporate^^^c^^K^i^' ^^^^' 
name may sue and be sued, and may take, hold and convey 
personal and real estate. 

SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES. 

Sec. 508. Each school district shall elect at its organiza- officers, 
tion, and at each annual meeting thereafter, a moderator, clerk, ^{^^sl^'^s j \|6?No^^' 
collector of taxes, treasurer, one or three auditors, and a pru- H; 1854,' No. 42; r. 
dential committee consisting of one or three voters in such 23;^%I7^,'no.^23,^^°7; 
district ; and the member of a prudential committee first ^^09, p. 96, ^ 1 ; k. 
elected shall be the chairman thereof. The term of ofiice of 1787! p! i36! ' 
such officers shall commence at the time of their election and llZl' ^A^' llZl'^lf: 

.. J •! J 1 • 1 2UVt. 487. oZVt. 769. 

continue until their successors are chosen. 20 vt. 495. 

Sec. 509. A school district not otherwise directed by a committee, how chos- 
special act of incorporation, may, at an annual meeting, elect a i876. No, 47, ^ 1 ; 186S, 
prudential committee of three persons, or, in the case of a union ^^* ^^' ^^ 2' '^• 
or graded school district, of three, six or nine persons, one- 



162 SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICERS. [Title 10. 

third of which number shall be chosen for one year, one-third 
for two years, and one-third for three years, and upon the ex- 
piration of the term of office of auy member of such committee, 
may elect his successor for a term of three years ; and may at 
an annual meeting fill a vacancy occurring in such board. 
Town couector may be Sec. 510. A scliool clistrict may clcct the collector of town 
g!s!*'22?S'33Ti861, taxcs, although he is not an inhabitant of the district, to be 
No. 12. collector of school district taxes, if he will accept the office; 

and the town collector so elected and accepting, shall possess 
the i)owers and be subject to the duties imposed by law upon 
school district collectors. 
Collector's 1)011(1. Seo. 511. CoUectors of taxcs in school districts, before 

i870,^No. 18; 1867, entering upon their duties, shall, if required by vote of the dis- 
trict or by the prudential committee, give bonds to the district 
for the faithful performance of their duties, in such sum as may 
be required. 
His office, how vacated. Sec. 612. If a coUcctor ueglccts for ten days to give bonds, 
No^iM2.^' ^^'^'' '^''^^ refuses, upon the request of the prudential committee, to 

perform the duties of his office, the office shall be vacant. 
Moderator. Seo. 513. The moderator shall preside at school district 

s|'?'i852^No^38^'u' meetings. In case of his absence from a meeting a moderator 
U. s. 18, ^'9; 1827, mav bc chosen to preside at such meetino-. 

No. 23, § 7. -^ ^ . ® . 

Treasurer; auditors. Sec. 514. The dutics of scliool district treasurers and 
22,' 1 32° 18^4,^ 0.42, auditors shall be like those of town treasurers and town 
H- auditors. 

Prudential committee. Sec. 515. The prudential Committee shall keep cacli school- 
J*39 • R° s.^sf Mi^"' house in their district in good order, and if there is no school- 
l827^No. 23, ^W; house shall provide a suitable place for each school; shall see 
r' 1787' p! m. "' that fuel and furniture and all appendages and things necessa:ry 
n? y** too' o^ J^- flJ- for the school are provided ; shall appoint and ao-ree with a 

24 Vt. 628. 37 Vt. 521. , , . , , .i i i i i • i "" 

30 vt.155. 38 vt 529. teacher to instruct the school, and remove him Avhen necessary ; 
^'^ "^'•^•77. jjj-^d adopt requisite measures, not in conflict with tliose of the 

town superintendent, for the inspection, examination, regula- 
tion and improvement of the school. 
To perform clerk's Sec. 516. Ill the abscnce or disability of a sckool district 

g'. s.**22, ^s 36 ; 1846, clerk the prudential committee shall discharge the duties of 
No. 6. clerk. 

Clerk. Sec. 517. School district clerks shall, within ten days after 

No^39^°G^s'.22'^t'37- their election or appointment, give notice thereof and of the 
1856, No. 37, § \; R. ' number of their district to their respective town clerks, and if 
23 (,7. ' ' '^' they fail to do so, shall receive no compensation for their ser- 
vices. They shall keep a record of the votes and proceedings 
of school district meetings and certify the same when required ; 
and if they, or the prudential committee acting in their place, 
wilfully neglect to do so, they shall forfeit twenty dollars to 
the district, to be recovered in an action on this statute. 
Filling yacancies in Sec. 518. Wlieii a vacaucy occurs in the office of clerk, 

OlIlCGS 

1868, No. 36; G. s. collcctor of taxcs, ti'casurer or prudential committee of a school 

ii'v ^618^^5^'v °"iio* *^^*'t^"ict, the selectmen of the town in which a plurality of the 

2;vt. 603. " ■ inhabitants of such district reside shall fill such vacancy until 

a new election is made, by the appointment of a resident of 



Chap. 31.] 



SCHOOL MEETINGS— VOTERS. 



163 



such district ; and the district at a special meeting may make a 
new election. 

SCHOOL DISTRICT MEETINGS AND VOTERS THEREIN. 

Sec. 519. The annual school meeting shall be held in each Meetings, 
district on the last Tuesday in March, and shall be notified by Pse?" No ^ip^'iss!^ 
the school district clerk, or, in case of his absence or neglect, No. 2; i850,'no. 40; 
by one of the prudential committee. Special meetings shall be nq. 23, i7;R. 1797, 
appointed and notitied in the same manner, on application in p- 495, ^3; 1795, p. 
writing by three or more voters of the district. 20Vt. w. 23Vt.4i6. 

Sec. 520. If a person, whose duty it is to warn a school Penally for neglect to 
district meeting, neglects so to do for ten days after application g. s.'22, ^ .58; r. s. 
made as prescribed by law, he shall forfeit, for the use of e V ^^ ' ^^^^' ^' ^^' 
schools in such district, twenty dollars for each ten days' neg- 46 vt. 90. 
lect, to l^e recovered in an action in the name of the district. 

Sec. 521. Notices for school district meetings shall be warning, 
posted up in one or more of the most public places in the dis- No^'is^'itls 'i8^^\'2- 
trict at least seven and not more than twelve days before the I827, No 23, §7\ R. ' 
time appointed for such meeting, and shall specify the time and I787; p" tm. ^ ' " 
place of holdino- the same, and the business to be transacted or i4vt.300. 23Vt. 4i6. 

^ ,. , , ^ . ■. \ , , ,. 16Vt.439. 43Vt.207. 

questions to be considered at such meeting. i7Vt.337. 48Vt.599. 

Sec. 522. The word " meeting " as applied to school dis- Tsjieeting" construed, 
trict meetings wherever used in this title, shall mean a school 
district meeting notified as provided in the i^receding section. 

Sec. 523. Persons residing in a school district and qualified Voters, wiio are; how 
to vote in town meeting, shall be voters in school district i870, No 17 ;1868, No. 
meetings; and if a person offering to vote is challenged, the |^\g^-c ^'.^^^ly-^^^^* 
moderator at such meeting, the cleric and the members of the 23, <^ 7. 
prudential committee present shall decide as to his right to ^^ ^^' ^^^' 
vote. 

Sec. 524. Women shall have the same right to vote as mgut of women, 
men have in all school district meetings, and in the election of ^^*^^'^°' ^°^' 
school commissioners in towns and cities, and the same right 
to hold offices relating' to school affairs. 



Chapter 31. 



SCHOOL-HOUSES. 



Sectiox 

525. District may vote tax to provide 

school-house. 

526. Site, how determined. 

527. Application to selectmen to fix pitc. 

528. Selectmen to hear parties and fi.x site. 

529. Application to selectmen when dis- 

trict fails to provide school-house. 

530. Selectmen to hear parties and make 

order. 

531. Proceedings when district fails to 

obey order. 

532. Proceedings to be recorded; record 

to be evidence. 

533. Proceedings when selectmen cannot 

agree on site. 

534. Proceedings when owner refuses to 

convey kind chosen. 



Sf.ction 

535. Time given owner to remove build- 

ings, fences, &c. 

536. Selectmen's doings to be recorded. 

537. Question of damages may be refer- 

red. 

538. Petition to county court ; appoint- 

ment of commission. 

539. Notice of hearing; power of court on 

report. 

540. Opening of lands stayed ; execution 

for damages. 

541. Proceedings if lands mortgaged. 

542. Title to vest after damages paid. 

543. District may elect building com- 

mittee. 

544. District mav sell school-house. 



1G4 



SCHOOL-HOUSES. 



[Title 10. 



Tax to provide school- 
house. 

IS.O, No. 16; G. S. 
22, H3;R. S.18, yU3 
1827, No 23, sS 10; R 
1797, p. 495,6 3; 1795 
p. 9; R. 1787, p. 137. 
Site, how fixed. 
G. S. 22. >v 44; R. S 
18, ^ 14; 1827, No. 23, 
^§ 10, 14. 



Application to select- 
men. 

1876, No. 40, ^ 1. 



Duty of selectmen. 

1876, No. 40, ^^{J 2, 3. 



Application when dis- 
trict fails to provide 
scliool-house. 

1864, No. GO, ^S 1. 



Hearing? and order. 

1864, No 60, ^ 2. 



When district fails to 
ohey order. 

1864, No. 60, ^ 3. 



Proceedings recorded ; 
evidence. 

1864, No. 60, i^ 4. 



Sec. 525. A school district may, in a district meeting, 
assess a tax on tiie district list to erect, repair or furnish a 
i school-house, or to purchase or hire a building to be used as a 
, school-house, and the lands necessary thereto. 

Sec. 526. At such meeting the district may, by a vote of 
] two-thirds of the voters present, determine in what place in the 
district the school-house shall be located. If two-thirds fail to 
agree upon such location, the selectmen of the town or towns 
in which such district is situated may, upon application of the 
prudential committee, determine such location. 

Sec. 527. If the prudential committee neglect for five days 
so to apply to the selectmen, three voters of the district muy 
apply in writing to such selectmen, stating the neglect of the 
prudential committee and petitioning the selectmento fix upon 
a location. 

Sec. 528. The selectmen so applied to shall forthwith give 
notice of a hearing in the same manner as school district meet- 
ings are required to be notified, and shall hear the petitioners 
and persons interested, and if the failure of the district to 
determine a location, and of the prudential committee to apply 
Avithin the limited time, appears at such hearing, the selectmen 
so applied to shall determine such location, and shall make' 
return of the application and their doings thereon to the district 
clerk who shall record the same. 

Sec. 529. If a school district neglects for two years to 
provide a suitable school-house, application may be made by 
three voters of the district to the selectmen of the town or towns 
in which such district is situated, and such selectmen shall 
appoint a time and place for hearing the applicants and persons 
interested, and shall cause such applicants to give notice to 
such school district of such application and of the time and place 
of hearing, which notice shall be served upon the district like a 
wn-it of summons at least twenty days before the time appointed 
for such hearing. 

Sec. 530. If it appears at the hearing that the district is 
guilty of neglect as charged, and that the interests of education 
in the district so require, the selectmen shall order the district 
to provide a school-house, which order shall be served on the 
district like ordinary process in civil causes. 

Sec. 531. If the district neglects f(n- six months after such 
service to provide a suitable school-house or to raise money 
therefor, the selectmen who made the order may provide such 
school-house and may assess a tax upon the district and make a 
rate bill for the amount required therefor ; and said tax shall be 
collected by the town collector of the town in which the school- 
house is located, in the same manner as town taxes are collected, 
and shall be paid over to the selectmen and be used by them in 
providing a school-house. 

Sec. 532. The proceedings under the three preceding 
sections shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the town 
in which the school-house is located, and copies of such record 



Chap. 31.] TAKING LAND FOR SCHOOLS. 165 

certified by the clerk, with whom they were recorded, shall be 
evidence in the courts. 

Sec. 533. When it devolves upon the selectmen to locate when selectmen can not 
or build a school-house, if a majority of such selectmen can not life^No 40, ^s*^ 4, 5. 
agree upon a location therefor, they shall forthwith make a 
return of the appUcation made to them and their failure to 
agree to the district clerk, who shall make a record of the same. 
In such case three or more voters of the district may apply in 
writing to an assistant judge of the county court of the county 
in Avhich the greatest number of voters in the district resides, 
to determine the location of such school-house ; and such judge 
shall give notice of a hearing, hear, determine the mattpr, and 
make return of his proceedings, and such proceedings shall be 
recorded, as provided in case of the location of a school-house 
by selectmen ; and the assistant judge shall for his services be 
paid by the district three dollars a day and his expenses. 

TAKING LANDS FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES. 

Sec. 534. When a school-house is located, and lands for wuen owner refuses to 
such school-house and yards are needed, or when a district or isj^'^^o. 112 \^2 3- 
town votes to purchase additional land for school purposes, if G- s. 22, ^s^ ii4, ns- 

+1 f 1 1 J ^ + j-i V .1 T I860, No 3, M ; 1859, 

the owner ot such lands reiuses to convey the same to the dis- no. 33; 1857, No. 58^ 
trict or town for a reasonable price, the selectmen of the town ^ ^- ^ 
or towns in which the district is situated, on the application of 
the prudential committee in the case of common or union school 
districts, and without such application in the case of hio-h or 
central school districts shall locate and set out the necessary 
lands, and cause the same to be surveyed ; and shall appoint a 
time and place for a hearing and give notice thereof to persons 
interested in the land to be taken, either personally or by writ- 
ten notice left at the residence of the owner or occupant of such 
land ; and at such hearing shall ascertain the damages sustained 
by such interested persons ; and the damages assessed shall be 
paid or tendered to such persons before taking possession of the 
land. 

Sec. 535. When the selectmen decide to take land, they Removal of buiidinirs, 
shall, in their order for that purpose, fix a time and notify the *878, No. 112, ^^^n 4, 5. 
owner or occupant thereof, within which he will be required to ^3 vt. 36^;. 
remove his buildings, fences, timber, wood, trees and wall, 
which, in case of enclosed or improved land shall not, without 
the consent of the owner, be less than three months, nor until 
the compensation for damages to such land, is tendered or paid ; 
and if they are not removed within that time, the selectmen 
shall remove them, in the case of a high or central school dis- 
trict, at the expense of the town, or in case of a union or com- 
mon school district, at the expense of said district. 

Sec. 536. All orders and proceedings of the selectmen Proceedings to be re- 
under the provisions of the two preceding sections, with the ig7y^*jq-o -112, ^ 6- G. 
survey of the land taken, shall be recorded in the town clerk's s. 22, § 114 ; i860,'No! 
office of the town in which the land lies. I'J^' ^^^^' ^^- ^^' ^' 

Sec. 537. If the owner of such land does not accept the Question of damag-es, 
damages awarded by the selectmen, the prudential committee a^s!* 22^^110"; i860, 



166 TAKING LAND— SCHOOL-HOUSE. [Title 10. 

No. 3, § 3 ; 1857, No. of the district may agree with him to refer the question of dam- 
^^' ^ ^- ages to one or more disinterested persons, whose award sliall 

be made in writins: and sliall be final. 
Petition to county Sec. 538. If a person interested in such land is dissatisfied 

G."s.'22, ^"i 117; 1860, witli such locatioii, or with the damages awarded by the select- 
No.3^s^ 4; 1857, No. j^-^g,!^ \^q niay apply by petition to the county court at its next 
stated term, if there is sufficient time for notice, and if not, to 
the succeeding term, and any number of persons aggrieved may 
join in the petition. The petition, with a citation, shall be served 
on one or more of the prudential committee of the school dis- 
trict, at least twelve days before the session of the court, and 
the court shall appoint three disinterested commissioners to 
inquire into the convenience and necessity of such school-house, 
and the manner of its location, and of the necessity of such 
lands, and the amount required, and the damages sustained by 
the persons interested therein. 
Notice of hearing; re- gj,^.^ 539^ rj^^Q commissioners shall give six days' notice to 
G. s. 22, j 118; 1860, one or more of the prudential committee of the school district, 
58?\s 5. ^ ' °' of the time and place of making such inquiry, and hearing the 

parties ; and on the report of the commissioners the court may 
establish or set aside such location, or such parts thereof as 
appears just, and may render judgment for the petitioner to 
recover against the school district such damages as appear to be 
just, and may tax costs as seems just for either party. 
Opening of lands Sec. 540. Wlieii sucli application is made to the county 

ctoyAfi • pxGCiitioii for 

damage's.' court the Opening of the land surveyed and laid out by the 

No. 3, i 6; 1857 No! Selectmen shall be stayed until the decision of the court; and 
58, ^ 6. the court may fix the time for opening the same and the pay- 

ment of damages, and if the damages are not paid within the 
time limited the court may award execution for the same. 
When lands mortgaged. Sec. 541. If luuds SO required by a school district are 
No.io."'^ " ' 'encumbered by mortgage, the school district shall cause the 
same notice to be o-iven to the mortgao-ee, or the assio:nee of 
the mortgage, required to be given to the owner; and the 
damage agreed upon, or otherwise determined, as specified in 
this chapter, shall be paid to the mortgagee or his assignee : 
but if the sum due on the mortgage is less than the damage, 
the amount due on the mortgage shall be paid to the holder, 
and the balance to the owner. 
Title to^vest,^when^.^^^ gjEC, 542. When the dauiagcs finally awarded for laiids SO 
No. io. ' " ' ' taken by a school district are paid to the persons entitled 
thereto, a valid title to such lands shall vest in the district or 
town for the purposes aforesaid. 

[building committee SALE OF SCHOOL-HOUSE.] 

Buiwing committee. ^ Sec. 543. A school district may elect a committee to 
18, ^"147 1827, No. 23, superintend the building, repairing or purchasing of a school- 
^ ^^' house and procuring the necessary furniture and utensils. 

i880°No*''96''"u"*''" ^^^' ^'^'^- ^ school district may at a meeting legally 
warned and holclen by a two-thirds vote of the voters present 
at the meeting, and a majority of the grand list of said district, 
sell and dispose of its school-house and the land connected 
therewith. 



Chap. 32.] ALTERATIONS IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 



167 



Chapter 32. 



ALTERATIONS IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 



Section 

545. Towns may alter districts. 
546, 547- Fractional districts, how dis- 
solved. 

548. Parts after separation to be districts. 

549. Parts not agreeing on division of 

property, judges to be applied to. 

550. Judges to notify hearing, hear and 

determine matter. 

551. Judges may sell property not divisi- 

ble. 



Section 

552. Judges may set school-house to dis- 

trict where situated. 

553. If assessment not paid district may 

be sued 

554. Judge, when disqualified. 

555. Judges' i-etnrn to be recorded. 

556. Compensation of judges. 

557. Debts due to and from district, not 

affected by alteration. 



Sec. 545. A town may, by vote in town meeting, divide, Towns may alter dis- 
unite, or otherwise altar school districts therein situated. But i878,'no ii4; g. s. 
there shall be no alteration in school districts unless the altera- ^^'i^O". ^- ^•^^' ^l'^ 

. • I • .1 182/, No. 23, \N 2; R. 

tions asked for are planily set forth in an article m the warn- 1797, p. 493; R. 1787, 
ings for the annual town meetings. 8Vt%2 37vt. 196. 

10 Vt 480. 41 Vt.' 317. 
23Vt.626. 44Vt.404. 
25Vt.311. 46Vt. 19. 
33 Vt. 219. 

Sec, 546. Three or more voters in the fractional part of a Dissolving fractional 
school district formed from the territory of adjoining towns by i878,'no. 116; I868, 
the concurrent vote of such towns, or, one or more voters if so ^^g^^jj^/ff-^^sll^' 
many as three do not reside in such fractional part, may, if No. is. ' 
they desire to dissolve such district, apply in writing to t^^&HY^.^idi^^^^'^^^' 
selectmen of each of said towns to insert articles for that pur- 
pose in the warnings for the next annual town meetings ; and 
the selectmen of each of said towns shall insert such articles 
in the warnings for such annual town meetings. At such 
meetings each town shall vote upon the question whether said 
district shall be dissolved ; and if their votes are concurrent, 
the district shall be or be not dissolved, according to the deci- 
sion of the towns. 

Sec. 547. If the votes of the town are not concurrent, on application to 

,1 1 • T T 1 1 j^ county court. 

three voters, or a less number as provided above, may apply to i878, No. 116; g. s. 
a judge of the county court of the county in Avhich the school- ^f 2!^) ||: isisf No', il. 
house is located, who shall appoint three justices of the same 
county, not inhabitants of either town in interest, to decide in 
the matter. And such justices shall, if it seems to them expe- 
dient, order such district to be dissolved, and shall make and 
file a certificate thereof in the office of the town clerk of each 
town interested, to be recorded ; and shall order a distribution 
of the property belonging to such district, to the inhabitants 
thereof residing in the several towns, and may order the pay- 
ment of such damages by or to, the inhabitants of either town, 
as are just. 

Sec, 548. The inhabitants of each town after the separa- Parts may or|anize.^ 
tion may organize themselves into a school district, and may is, §'23? ^ 
receive, recover and take care of such damages as are awarded 
to them by the justices. 



168 



ALTERATIONS IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS. [Title 10. 



Division of property ; 
application to judges. 

1872, No. 13, § 1. 



Judges to give notice, 
hear and award. 

1872, No. 13, i 2. 



Property not divisible 
to be sold. 

1872, No. 13, i^ 3. 



Buildings may be set 
to district where situ- 
ated. 

1872, No. 13, ^ 4. 



If assessment not paid, 
district to be sued. 

1872, No. 13, i^ 8. 



Judge, when disquali- 
fied. 

1872, No. 13, § 5. 



Judges' return ; to be 
recorded. 

1872, No. 13, § 6. 



Sec. 549. When a school district is divided into two or 
more districts, by vote of the town or towns in which it is 
located, and said districts cannot agree upon a division of their 
corporate property, the clerk of the district so divided shall, 
or in his absence, or inability, or refusal to act, a tax-paj^er in 
either portion of said district may apply to the assistant judges 
of the county court of the county in Avhich the school-house is 
situated. 

Sec. 550. The judges shall, upon such application, within 
a reasonable time, give notice by posting upon the school-house 
in the original district, and in one other public place in each of 
said new districts, a notification, at least twenty days prior to 
the time set for hearing, stating the time when and the place 
where they will examine the property and hear the parties 
interested in the division of such property, and upon such 
hearing, shall make a just division of the property and assets 
of such original district, includinsr taxes voted but not collected, 
between said new districts. 

Sec. 551. When the property of such district is such that 
it cannot be divided between the new districts, said judges may 
sell the same, and execute therefor deeds and writings neces- 
sary for a proper transfer thereof, and such deeds and writings 
when recorded in the town clerk's office of the town where such 
property is situated, shall pass the title thereof to the pur- 
chaser ; and the judges shall make a just division of the proceeds 
of such sale between the new districts. 

Sec. 552. When a part of the property of the original 
district consists of a school-house or other buildings, or build- 
ings and land, which can be used beneficially by one of the new 
districts, said judges may set the same to the new district in 
which the buildings or land are situated, and may assess upon 
the district to which such lauds and buildings are set such sum 
therefor as appears just, and may order the same to be paid to 
such other new district or districts, in such time and manner as 
they direct. 

Sec. 553. If the district so assessed shall, for six months, 
neglect to pay to the district entitled to the same the sum so 
assessed and ordered to be paid, the district to which said sum 
is awarded may recover the same, in an action on the case, 
founded on this statute. 

Sec. 554. If either of said judges resides or owns real 
estate in such divided district, he shall not act, and the other 
of said judges shall have the powers and perform the duties 
before provided for both of said judges. 

Sec. 555. When said judges have completed such divi- 
sion, they shall make return of their doings to the town 
clerk of the town or towns in which the original district is 
located, stating the property divided, the manner of the divis- 
ion and the names of the persons to whom sold ; and when the 
same consists of real estate, it shall be described by metes and 
bounds ; and the return shall be recorded in said town clerk's 
office. 



Chap. 33.] MAINTENANCE OF SCHOOLS. 



169 



Sec. 556. The charges of the judges in making such divis- Judges' fees, 
ion shall be borne by such new districts in such proportions as ^^^~' ^°' ^^' ^ '^• 
the judges determine and certify in their return ; and each of 
such districts shall be liable to pay the sum so certified, to be 
recovered in the names of the said judges in an action on the 
case founded on this statute. 

Sec. 557. No alterations in or union of school districts Debts to and from lUs- 
shall dissolve or merge such districts until the debts and lia- luerrtionf*'*'*'"' ^^ 
bilities due to or from such districts have been settled and 49^yA°" ^^^ 
paid. Rights of action, in favor of or against such districts, 
may be enforced as though such school districts had not been 
changed, and the officers of the district at the time of such 
change shall continue in office with such powers as may be 
necessary in respect to the service of process, calling district 
meetings, settling claims in favor of and against the district, 
levying, assessing and collecting taxes to pay liabilities, and 
fully closing up the concerns of such districts, until all debts 
and claims of such districts are settled and paid. 



CHAPTER 33. 



MAINTENANCE OF SCHOOLS. 



Section 

558. School to I e kept in each town ; 

studies required. 

559. District may vote tax to support 

sciiool. 

560. When school must be kept ; applica- 

tion to selectmen. 



Section 
.561. Duty of selectmen when applied to. 

562. Right of district to pul)lic monc3'S. 

563. What selectmen applied to where dis- 

trict lies in two towns. 



Sec. 558. One or more schools shall be maintained in school to be kept ; 
each town for the instruction of the young in reading, writing, is"'" ''noTs^ g! s. 22 
spelling, English grammar, geography, arithmetic, free-hand M9; R-S. 18, ^uT'^' 
drawing, history and constitution of the United States, and l797;^°49|f'^ f/' ^' 
good behavior; and special instruction shall be given in the ^2 vt. 224. ' 
geography and history, constitution and principles of govern- 
ment of Vermont. 

Sec. 559. Each district may by vote in district meeting Tax for its support. 
assess a tax upon the district list for the support of schools 54^3^: ^°ig^i fj-. ^1327' 
therein. lSo.'23,*^ ib; r.'i797,' 

p. 495, ^3; 1795, p. 9; 
11. 1787, p. 137. 

Sec. 560. Each school district shall provide for the in- when to be kept; ap. 
struction of the legal scholars in the district in the branches Vo'sn^iS" *» ^eie^tmen. 

Ill/', . ,1 ^ looU, iNO. yO, y i. 

required by law, tor ten consecutive weeks between March 1st 
and September 1st and for ten consecutive weeks between 
September 1st and March 1st, annually ; and if a district does 
not between March 1st and June 1st provide for the commence- 
ment of such first mentioned term of instruction, or does not 
between September 1st and December 1st provide for the com- 
mencement of such second mentioned term of instruction, or 
discontinues the opportunities of instruction in either case 



170 



SENDING CHILDREN OUT OF DISTRICT. [Title 10. 



Selectmen's duty. 

1880, No. 98, s'i 2; 1870, 
No. 14; 1866, No. 5; 
G S. 22, v^^30, 40; 
1860, Nos. 1. 4; 1859, 
No. 32. 



Right to public moneys. 

1880, No. 98, ^'i 3. 



VViien district lies in 
two towns. 

1880, No. 98, § 5. 



before the expiration of the term during which instruction is 
required to be provided by law, any voter of the district may 
apply by petition in writing, setting forth the neglect of the 
district, to the selectmen of the town in which such district is. 

Sec. 561. AVhen application shall be made as provided in 
the first section of this act [§ 560], it shall be the duty of the 
selectmen to fix a time for hearing thereon, not less than six 
nor more than ten days from the presentation of the petition, 
which shall be served upon the committee of the district, if the 
district has elected officers. 

If the selectmen, upon the hearing, determine that the facts 
set forth in the petition are true they shall forthwith declare 
the offices in the district vacant, if the district has elected offi- 
cers, and shall make provision for the instruction of the legal 
scholars of the district, either in the district or elsewhere, at 
the times and for the length of time prescribed in the preced- 
ing section, and may without vote of the district assess a tax 
upon the grand list of the district sufficient to defray the 
expense of such instruction, including the general expenses of 
the scholars if they are sent out of the district, and shall make 
a rate bill therefor. The town collector shall collect such tax, 
and in such collection shall have the same powers and be subject 
to the same liabilities as in the collection of town taxes. The 
moneys collected shall be paid over to the selectmen, who shall 
defray therewith, and with other moneys coming to their hands 
appropriated to such district, all expenses incurred in provid- 
ing instruction for the legal scholars of the district. 

Sec. 562. If the instruction furnished by the selectmen, in 
case application is made to them, together with that furnished 
by the district, if any, before petition is had to the selectmen, 
equals in any year the amount of instruction required by law to 
be furnished to the scholars of a district,. such district shall be 
entitled to its share of the public moneys divided equally among 
the districts, and to so much of the moneys divided according 
to the ao'o-reo-ate attendance, as the selectmen think to be the 
fair proportion of the district. 

Sec. 563. In case of a district lying in two or more towns, 
the application provided for in section one of this act [§ 560 j 
shall be had to the selectmen of the town in which a plurality 
of the inhabitants of such district reside. 



CHAPTER 34. 



SENDING CHILDEEN TO SCHOOL OUT OF THE DISTRICT IN 
WHICH THEY RESIDE, AND TO ACADEMIES. 



Section 

564, 565. District raay send scholars to 
adjoining district. 

566. School directors may send scholars 

to adjoining town. 

567. District may send scholars to adjoin- 

ing district out of state. 



Sectiox 

568. District may send scholars to acade- 

my. 

569. Limitation of contract. 

570. District's ngl)t to public money in 

such casc^ how ascertained. 



Chap. 34.] SENDING CHILDREN OUT OF DISTRICT. 171 

Sec. 564. Where a school district is so situated as to be District may send 
conveniently accommodated for school purposes iu a neighbor- diltrkt!*** adjommT 
ing school district or districts, it may, by a two-thirds vote of ^0*^45'^^ ^i*' ^ ^' ^^"^' 
the voters present at a meeting legally warned for tliat purpose, ' ^ 

authorize the prudential committee to arrange for sending its 
legal scholars to the schools of such neio-hborino- district or dis- 
tricts, for not more than twenty-six weeks in a school year, 
and may also by a two-thirds vote pay a reasonable sum for 
the transportation of such scholars to and from school. 

Sec. 565. If such scholars are provided with not less than District wuen deemed 
twenty weeks' schooling within the school year, including that sch^k *'""•""•*•'•' 
in the district of their residence, such district shall be held to no'^4^°s' ^i*' ^'' ^ ' ^^'^' 
have supported a school for the twenty weeks required by law, 
and may assess and collect a tax to defray the expenses of such 
schooling, and for the transportation of the scholars. 

Sec. 566. The board of school directors of a town using School directors may 

. 1 , , i? 1 1 • 1 i? J.1 IT i- sdd sclioiars to adjoin- 

the town system ot schools, may provide tor the schooling otingtown. 
any legal scholars of the town in the public schools of an ^^^^' ^^' '*^' ^ ^' 
adjoining town if the parents or guardians of the scholars con- 
sent, and may pay for the schooling from the school moneys of 
the town. 

Sec. 567. When a school district is so situated as to be District may send 

, 'XT 1 X 1 jf 11 • sclioiars out of state. 

most conveniently accommodated tor school purposes in a 1872, No. 11. 

school district in an adjoining state, such school district may, 

at a district meeting, authorize the prudential committee to 

arrange with the school officers of such adjoining district for 

the schooling of the legal scholars of such district in this state, 

for not more than twenty-six weeks in a school year ; and if 

such scholars are provided with not less than twenty weeks' 

schooling within the school year, such district shall be held to 

have supported a school, and may assess and collect a tax to 

defray the expenses of such schooling, and shall be entitled 

to its share of the public moneys. 

Sec. 568. A school district which is within a town in Sendinar scholars to 
which an academy is located, may, at a district meeting, not isso^n'o. 97. ^ ; 1876, 
less than seven nor more than twelve days notice thereof ^^- ^^ ; 1869, No. 9, 
being given, direct its prudential committee to make an ar- 
rangement with the officers of the academy to instruct in said 
academy all or part of the scholars belonging to such district 
in the studies required by law to be taught in the common 
schools, and such other branches as are provided by law to be 
taught in the graded schools. 

Sec. 569. No contract so made by a district with the offi- Limitation of contract, 
cers of an academy shall be binding on the district for more i869| No. 9, '^2. ' 
than two years, and may at any time be modified by legisla- 
tion ; and no such contract shall release a district from the 
obligation to provide for the instruction of all the legal scholars 
of the district for the full time required by law. 

Sec. 570. In calculating the share of the public moneys District's right to pnb- 
which a district is entitled to receive, the attendance of any talned"."*'^' 
scholar upon an academy, as provided in the preceding sec- ^^^^^r^g^''' ^^ ^ ' ^^'^^' 
tions, shall be treated as an attendance for an equal length of 



172 



GRADED SCHOOLS — HIGH SCHOOLS. [Titlk 10. 



time upon a public school maintained by the district ; and it is 
hereby made the duty of the officers of sucli academy to cause 
to be kept a correct record of the attendance of those schohu's 
upon the academy, so arranged for by the several districts, and 
cause the same to be returned to the selectmen of the town 
wherein such districts are located on or before the twentieth 
day of March of each year, and if the officers of such academy 
shall neglect to cause such record to be kept and returned as 
required by this section, properly certified to by the principal 
teacher of such academy, then both the officers and teachers of 
such academy shall forfeit their right to collect the tuition of 
the schohu's so arranged for under the provisions of section 
one of this act [§ 568]. 



Chapter 36. 



GRADED, CENTRAL AND UNION SCHOOLS. 



Sectiox 

571. Graded schools. 

572. District liigla scliools. 



Union Districts. 
Formation ; powers. 
Scliools to 1)6 inaintained in uniting 

districts ; admission to union school 

regulated. 
District meetings. 

576. Officers. 

577. Prudential committee, how formed. 



573 
574 



575. 



Section 

578. Districts, bow to unite with or with- 

draw from union. 

Town High or Central Schools. 

579. Formation ; powers. 

580-584. Prudential committee; election; 

vacancies; duties. 
585. Treasurer; collector. 
536. Purchasing land for school-house. 

587. Tuition. 

588. Tax for supporting school. 



Gradeil scJiools. 

1S7G, No. 44. 



GRADED SCHOOLS. 

Sec. 571. A school maintained by a town or school dis- 
trict for not less than thirty weeks each 3^ear, and consisting of 
four or more departments, taught by four or more teachers, 
having an established course of study, and having all the 
departments vmder the control of one principal teacher, shall be 
a graded school, and entitled to the privileges granted by law 
to graded schools. And a school district supportiii^^ such a 
school shall be a graded school district and entitled to tne privi- 
leo;es of o-raded school districts. 



District hiffh schools. 

G. S. 22, f^ 61-65; 
,1844, No. 5. 



DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS. 

Sec. 572. If the children of a school district are so numer- 
ous as to require more than one teacher, the district may, at a 
district meeting, vote to erect as many school-houses and to 
provide as many teachers as are necessary, and may fix the 
location of such school-houses ; and may direct the sciences or 
higher branches of study to be taught in one of such schools. 
The prudential committee or a committee chosen for that pur- 
pose may examine as to the ages and qualifications of the chil- 
dren of the district and desiornate the school which each shall 



Chap. 35.] UNION SCHOOLS. 173 

attend, and may prescribe the terms upon wliieh children not 
residing in the district may attend the higher school. 

UNION SCHOOLS. 

Sec. 573. Contiguous school districts may form a im ion Formation ; powers, 
district, for maintaining a school for the benefit of the older i84i,'no. 23, ^^u,'2,5'. 
children of such districts, if the voters of each district by a two- 
thirds vote, at a district meeting, agree to form such union. 
A district so formed shall assume a corporate name and be a 
corporation, with the powers and liabilities of common school 
districts ; may, like common school districts, raise money for 
providing a school-house and all things necessary thereto, and 
for maintaining a school ; and the same proceedings shall be 
had in locating a school-house as provided in the case of com- 
mon school districts. 

Sec. 574. The 'schools in each of the associate districts schools kept in unitinar 
shall be maintained as if no union district had been formed, Vuo'^may attend.**"**** ' 
and only such scholars shall be admitted to the union school as ^0^2!^^ 7^^' ^^*^' 
are of the age and possess the qualifications prescribed by the 
prudential committee of the union district. 

Sec. 575. The first meeting of a union district shall be union district meei- 
called in such manner, and at such time and place, as may be g"s. 22, ^^ 69, 71 -, 
agreed upon by the associate districts at the time of forming the l?'^^23^*^"|*' ^^*^' 
union. The annual meeting shall be held on the first Wednes- 
day after the last Tuesday in INIarch. 

Sec. 676. The officers of a union district shall be a moder- officers, 
ator, collector, treasurer and clerk, who shall be elected at each i^q^', No! 24';^Grs. ' 
annual meetina: ; and such district may elect a prudential com- 22, ^\^ Jo, 75; is50 

,. ,, '^ . . "^ ^ , T . ,. No. 41 : 1841, No. 23, 

mittee of three, six, or nine persons, as provided in section ^ 4. 
four hundred twenty-nine [§ 509]. A clerk shall be elected by 
ballot at the first meetino-. Union district officers shall hold 
office until their successors are elected ; and shall have the 
same powers and perform the same duties as the same officers in 
common school districts. 

Sec. 577. If the prudential committee are not elected as committee, how 
provided in the preceding section, the chairmen of the pruden- g.'^s!^'22, ^';73; 1858, 
tial committees of the districts composing the union districts ^o- b § lO- 
shall constitute the prudential committee of the union district ; 
and when the union district is formed of an even number of 
common school districts, the union district shall elect an addi- 
tional member to such committee, who shall be a resident of 
the union district and shall hold office for one year and until his 
successor is elected. 

Sec. 578. One of the districts composing a union district uniting with or with- 

.,11 n 1 • ^ J, J. J? J. drawinff from union. 

may Withdraw from such union by a concurrent vote ot two- g. s. 22, ^^is^ 76, 77; 

thirds of the district desiring to withdraw, and two-thirds of 1852, No. 37. 

the remaining portion of the union district, at meetings warned 

for that purpose ; and a contiguous district may join a union 

district by a concurrent vote of two-thirds of such contiguous 

district and two-thirds of such union district, at meetings 

warned for that purpose. 



174 



TOWN HIGH OR CENTRAL SCHOOLS. [Title 10. 



Formation ; powers. 
1878, No. 112, ^S 1; 
1859, No. 10 ; 1867, 
No. 16, ^J,J 1,7. 



Committee, election of. 

1880, No. 99, «,«> 1 ; 
1867, No. 16, ^ 2. 



Towns to elect in 1881, 

1880, No. 99, i^ 2. 



Election of successors. 

1880, No. 99, i^ 3. 



Vacancies. 

1880, No. 99, ^ 4. 



Duties of committee. 

1880, No. 99, ^<. 5 -,1867 
No. 16, ^^ 2. 



Treasurer and col- 
lector. 

1878, No. 112, y^ 1; 
1867, No. 16 ^ 3. 



Purchasinsr land for 
school-house. 

1878. No. 112. 



Tuition. 

1869, No. 10; 1867, 
No. 16, ij 4. 



TOWN HIGH OR CENTRAL SCHOOLS. 

Sec. 579. A town may at the annual town meeting estab- 
lish one or more high or central schools for adv^anced pupils of 
the several districts in the town, and, if they so vote, shall, at 
a meeting warned for that purpose, fix the boundaries of such 
high or central school districts ; and towns providing high or 
central schools shall have the powers of union districts. 

Sec. 580. When a town votes to establish a high or central 
school or schools it shall, at the same meeting at which such 
vote is passed, elect a prudential committee of three persons, 
for each high or central school district, one member of which 
committee shall be elected for three years, one for two years, 
and one for one year, from the first day of July next following 
their election ; and such committee first chosen shall also hold 
office from the day of their election until the first day of July 
next following. 

Sec. 581. Towns which have established high or central 
schools shall at the annual town meeting in 1881 elect such a 
committee. 

Sec. 582. At each annual town meeting after the one at 
which a committee is first elected under the provisions of the 
two preceding sections, the town shall elect a successor to that 
member of the committee whose term expires that year ; and the 
term of office of the person so chosen shall commence on the 
first day of July next following his election, and continue for 
three years. 

Sec. 583. A vacancy in a prudential committee elected 
under the provisions of the three preceding sections, may be 
filled by the committee, or, if the committee fails to fill the 
vacancy within thirty days after it occurs, by the selectmen of 
the tow^n. The person appointed to fill the vacancy shall hold 
office for the remainder of the term for which the person in 
whose office the vacancy occurred was elected or appointed, or 
until such town shall fill such vacancy. 

Sec. 584. The duties of the prudential committee of a 
hio-h or central school district shall be the same as those of the 
same officers in union districts. 

Sec. 585. The to^vn treasurer and town collector shall be 
treasurer and collector of hioli or central school districts with 
the powers and duties of similar officers in common school 
districts. 

Sec. 586. When a town, by vote in a meeting ^warned for 
that purpose, fixes upon the location for a high or central school- 
house, or votes to purchase additional lands therefor, the select- 
men shall purchase such lands ; and if they fail to agree with 
the owner vipon a compensation for the same, the same pro- 
ceedings shall be had as in such case provided in purchasing 
land for a common school. 

Sec. 587. Each pupil attending a high or central school 
shall pay a certain sum per term for tuition, Avhich shall be 
fixed by the prudential committee at the beginning of the term, 



Chap. 3G.] ABOLISHING SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 



175 



and shall not be altered during its continuance ; and said com- 
mittee may prescribe terms upon Avhich non-residents shall be 
admitted to such school. 

Sec. 588. If the sums received from tuition are not suffi- Tax for support of 
cient to maintain such school for the length of time fixed ])y i869°No. lo. 
the prudential committee, the committee may assess a tax on 
the district list of such high or central school district, for the 
balance required, and issue a warrant to the town collector to 
collect the same. 



Chapter 36. 



TOWN SYSTEM. 



Section 
•589. Abolishment of districts. 

590. Disposal of district propertj^ 

591, 592. Proceedings as to school-house 

of fractionat district. 

593. Town to pay award in sixty days. 

594. School directors; election; vacan- 

cies. 

595. Chairman ; election ; duties. 

596. Clerk; appointment; duties. 

597. School directors ; duties. 

598. May take students from other towns. 

599. Directors' report. 



Section 

600. Directors' compensation. 

601. Se.ectmen to assess tax. 

602. Duties of treasurer. 

603. School-houses. 

6Q4. When two-lhirds vote required to 
adopt system. 

605. Town may abolish town system. 

606. Districts restored. 

607. To receive former property. 

08. Town meetiniT to elect superintend- 
ent and clerk ; clerks to call meet- 
ings, &c. 



MODE OF ABOLISHING SCHOOL DISTRICTS, AND DISTRIBUTING 
DISTRICT PROPERTY. 

Sec. 589. A town may at its annual meeting abolish the Abolishment of <iis- 
school district system in such town; and the selectmen of a isjo^'no. lo, ^'.^s i, 4. 
town shall insert an article for that purpose in the warning for 
the annual meeting upon the application of three voters in the 
town. When a town so votes the school districts therein 
shall, after the first day of the next April, cease to exist except 
for the purpose of settling their pecuniary alfairs. 

Sec. 590. The school-houses and the property belonging Dispos-ii of district 
to such districts shall be appraised by three persons, to be i87o^no. 10, ^w. 
appointed by the assistant judges of the county court for the 
county, and the amount of such appraisal shall stand to the 
credit of the several school districts respectively, to be ad- 
justed, allowed and equalized between such districts by apply- 
ing such valuations upon the taxes thereafter assessed, under 
the provisions of this chapter, upon the grand list of the several 
school districts ; and such school-houses, and other property, 
shall become the property of such town. 

Sec. 591. When a town, wliich contains a fractional part sciiooi-honsc of frao. 

of a district formed of parts of two or more towns, adopts the taken. 

town system, such town shall, if the school-house of such dis- ^^'^^- ^°- ^^' "> ^°' 

trict is situated in such town, take possession thereof and of 

the school apparatus, land and other property of the district ; 

and the selectmen of the towns in which the district is located 



176 



BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS. [Title 10. 



shall forthwith appraise such property, and determine what 
propoi'tion is owned by the inhal)itants of towns other than that 
in wliich the school-house is situated. 

courr^^to^nn AuTlle ^^^' ^^^- ^^ ^^^^ ^'"^^^ boards of Selectmen cannot agree as 
1870, No. 10, \S^ 10, u! to the apportionment, the same shall be determined by three 
commissioners, wdio shall 1)e appointed by the assistant judges 
of the county court of the county, upon application by the 
selectmen of the town adopting the town system. If said 
towns are situated in different counties, then the same shall be 
aj)praised and apportioned by five commissioners, three of 
whom shall be appointed by the assistant judges of the county 
court of the county in which the town asking such commission 
is situated, and two by the county court of the county where 
the adjoining town is situated. The commissioners shall not 
be residents of either of such towns. They shall receive the 
same pay as road commissioners for their services, and shall, 
within ten days after such appraisal, file their reports in the 
town clerk's office of each of said towns ; and the expense of 
such commission shall be defrayed by the toAvn asking the 
same . 

Sec. 593. The town taking property of fractional districts, 
shall, within sixty da3's after such appraisal of the selectmen, 
or the filing of the report of the commissioners, pay to the 
treasurers of adjoining towns the amount apportioned to the 
inhabitants of such towns. 



Award to be paid in 
sixty days. 

1870, No. 10, § 12. 



elec' 



School directors 
tion ; vacancies. 

1870, No. 10, ^§ 2, 3 



Chairman ; election 
and duties. 

1870, No. 10, § 5. 



Cleric ; appointment 
and duties. 

1870, No. 10, ^^ 6. 



BOARD or SCHOOL DIRECTORS. 

Sec. 594. If a town votes to abolish the district system it 
shall, at the same meeting, elect a board of three or six school 
directors, citizens of such town, one-third of Avhom shall be 
elected for one 3'ear, one-third for two years, and one-third for 
three years from the close of the school year. At each annual 
town meeting thereafter the town shall elect successors to those 
directors whose term of office expires that year, and the term 
of office of directors so chosen shall commence at the close of 
the school year and continue for three years. A vacancy in 
the Iward may be filled by the selectmen until the next annual 
town meetino; when the town shall elect a director for the 
remainder of the unexpired term. All directors, whether 
elected or appointed, shall hold office until their successors 
are elected. 

Sec. 695. The board of school directors shall, on or before 
the first day of April in each year, elect one of their numl)er 
chairman who shall have the powers and be subject to the 
duties of town superintendents. 

Sec. 596. The board of school directors shall, on or before 
the first day of April in each year, appoint a clerk, not one 
of their number, who shall keep a permanent record book in 
which he shall record the proceedings of the board ; and he 
shall make the returns to town clerks required by law to be 
made by school district clerks, and shall receive the same 
compensation therefor. 



Chap. 36.] TOWN SYSTEM 177 

Sec. 597. The board of school directors shall be sworn , scuooi directors ; 
and shall have the care of property belonging to the public isre^No. 46; 1870 
schools of the town, shall prescribe the number of schools, No. lo, § 7. 
employ teachers and fix their compensation, have tlic manage- 
ment of the public schools, examine and allow claims arising 
therefrom, and draw warrants for the payment of sucli claims 
upon the town treasurer, and in general shall have the powers 
and perform tlie duties of the prudential committee and clerk 
of a school district. They may establish graded schools and 
provide for the instruction of scholars in the higher branches, 
and may make regulations, not inconsistent with law, for 
carrying the powers granted them into effect. 

Sec. 598. The board of school directors ma}^ receive May take students from 
students from other towns into the schools upon such terms as i87o^no."i6, § 9. 
they deem proper, and moneys received from such students 
shall be paid into tlie school fund of the town. 

Sec. 599. The board shall at each annual town meeting Directors' report, 
make a report to the town of their proceedings for the last school ^^'^^' ^°' ^^' ^ ^^' 
year, and present an exhibit of warrants drawn by them for the 
use of schools. 

Sec. 600. The chairman of the board shall receive from the compensation, 
state treasury the same compensation as town superintendents, ff^Jlx^"'^'^^?" „ 

■1^ w-14. 4. 1 4.1 4. 4. ^ 1876, No. 46; 1870, 

and irom the town treasury such sum as the toAvn votes to pay No. lo, f^s 5, 7. 
him. The compensation of other members of the board shall 
be fixed by the town at the time of their election and be paid 
out of its treasury. 

ANNUAL TAX ; DUTIES OF TREASURER ; SCHOOL-HOUSES. 

Sec. 601. The selectmen of a town using the town system selectmen to assess tax. 
shall annually appropriate for the use of schools in such town a ^^^°' ^°' ^^' ^ ^• 
sum not exceeding one-half nor less than one-fourth of the 
grand list of such town, and shall assess a tax annually to defray 
such appropriations. 

Sec. 602. The treasurer of such town shall keep a sep- Duties of treasurer, 
aratc account of the moneys appropriated or given for the use ^^'^^' ^°" ^'^' ^^ ^■ 
of schools, and shall pay, out of such moneys, warrants drawn 
by the board of school directors for the use of schools. 

Sec. 603. Such town shall provide and maintain suitable scuooi-uouses. 
school-houses, and the location, construction and sale of the ^^"*^' ^°' ^°' ^^ ^• 
same shall be under the control of the board of school direct- 
ors. 

RESTRICTION IN CASE OF CERTAIN DISTRICTS. 

Sec. 604. The foregoing provisions of this chapter shall JgJ'uFred to^'-^ao'ftrl''. 
not apply to graded school districts which have been incor- tem. 
poratcd b}^ act of the legislature, unless accepted by a vote of '^'°'^°" ^^' ^ ^^" 
two-thirds of the voters therein, nor to a district formed by the 
concurrent votes of two or more adjoining towns without the 
concurring votes of each of said towns consenting thereto. 

MODE OF ABOLISHING TOWN SYSTEM. 

Sec. 605. A town having abolished its school district sys- Mode of aboiisuing 
tem in pursuance of law may at any fifth annual town meeting isfs^No. 115; 1876, 



178 



TEXT-BOOKS. 



[Title 10. 



No. 41, ^ 1 ; 1872, No. 



Districts restored. 

1872, No. 9, s^ 2. 



To receive former prop, 
erty. 

lfS76, No. 41,^^2; 1872, 
No. 9, H- 



Town to elect superin. 
tendeiit and clerks ; 
first meeting. 

1872, No. 9, ^ 3. 



thereafter abolish its town system of schools by a vote of a 
majority of the legal voters present, and the selectmen of such 
town shall insert an article for that purpose in the Avarning for 
any fifth annual town meeting after such town has al^olishecl its 
school district system, upon the application in writing of twenty 
legal voters in such town. 

Sec. 606. When a town abolishes its town system of schools, 
the town shall be divided into the same number of school dis- 
tricts, with the same limits and boundaries, and the districts shall 
be designated by the same numbers, and shall have the same 
powers and be subject to the same duties and liabilities, as before 
they were abolished by said town. 

Sec. 607. When a town votes to abolish the town system 
of schools, the school-houses and other property formerly 
belonging to the school districts, shall become the property of 
the same school districts respectively, and the selectmen of said 
town shall fix upon the amount of credits upon its taxes that each 
of said districts has received, by reason of valuation and equal- 
ization of school property, and expenses in buikling or repair- 
in": school-houses in the limits of said districts under the town 
system, according to the provisions of section five hundred four 
[§ 590] ; and said selectmen shall equalize the same upon the 
grand lists of the several districts, when so restored to the dis- 
trict system, so that each district shall own its school property 
as before the adoption of the town system ; and the selectmen 
shall assess a tax on the grand lists of the several school dis- 
tricts, and cause the same to be collected to carry out the 
provisions of this section. 

Sec. 608. At the annual town meeting, at which the town 
system of schools is abolished, the voters shall elect a town 
superintendent of common schools ; also a clerk for each school 
district, who shall be a voter in such school district. And such 
clerk shall call the first meeting of said school district, which 
shall be held on the last Tuesday of March next succeeding said 
town meeting, by posting up notice as provided by law for 
holding the annual meetings in school districts ; and said school 
district may at this meeting elect officers for the year ensuing, 
and do any business that school districts may do at their annual 
meetings. 



Chapter 37. 



TEXT-BOOKS. 



Section 

609. Text-book committee. 

610. Their duty ; printing and distribution 

of report. 

611. Only boolts recommended to be used. 

612. Scholars to bo supplied with books. 



Section 

613. Price of books, how collected of 

parent. 

614. Towns may purchase books. 

615. Selection made in 1879 to be in 

force. 



Text-book committee. Seo. 609. There sliall be in each town a text-book com- 
1874! No! 33^ f 1^'^ ' niittee which, in towns using the district system, shall be com- 



Chap. 37.] TEXT-BOOKS. 173 

posed of two inhabitants of the town to be chosen at the annual 1872, No. U; i86(i,_ 
town meeting in 1884 and every fifth year thereafter, and of i862, No. 8 ; fsos', ' 
two inliabitants of each graded school district in the town, to jl^'c'^^^.^igU ^^^^'o^"" 
be chosen in the same years by such districts, and of the town ij 5; 1833, No. 19, ^ i; 
superintendent. In towns using the town system of schools, ^^^^' ^*^'^'^' ^-' 
the board of school directors for the year in which a selection 
of text-books is to be made shall be the text-book committee. 
Vacancies in a text-book committee may be filled as vacancies 
in the office of town superintendent are filled. 

Sec. 610. The text-book committees shall select and recom- Their duty ; printing 

T,,!!/. -J.!- i'j. 11 /. an<J«listrlbutin!? report. 

mend text-books tor use m their respective towns, one book ot i87S, No. 122,' ^^^s 5, 6. 

a grade, on the subjects required by law to be taught in the 

common schools, giving preference to books in use ; and if a 

chano-e is recommended shall decide how such chanoe shall be 

made ; and shall file a report with the town clerk on or before 

the first day of August following their election. During said 

month of August the town superintendent shall procure the 

printing and distribution of said report to the families in the 

town, and shall charge for the printing of the same in his 

account, but not to exceed one dollar per hundred copies. 

Sec. 611. The books recommended by the text-book com- oniy books recom- 
mittee shall be the books to be used in the public schools from i87'8,No!'i22"|^V'. 
the first day of November following the publication of the 
recommendation until another recommendation is made ; and 
the use in public schools of any other text-books than those 
recommended, except as books of reference, shall be unlawful. 

Sec. 612. If a pupil in a public school is not provided Scholars to be supplied 
with the requisite text-books, the prudential committee or i870, No. is, ^^ 1, 2; 
school board shall notify his parent, master or guardian ^^^^' ^°* ^^' ^ ^' 
thereof; and if they fail to supply such pupil within one 
week after such notice, the prudential committee or school 
board shall supply hiin ; and if such committee fails to supply 
such pupil within two weeks after his enrollment the town 
superintendent shall supply him. 

Sec. 613. The prudential committee, school board, or Price of books, how 
town superintendent shall give notice in writing to the listers i870,''no!'i5!'T|3,'4. 
of the names of pupils supplied by them, the prices of the 
books supplied and the names of such pupils' parents, masters 
or guardians ; and the listers shall add to the next annual tax 
of such parents, masters or guardians the price of such books, 
or may omit to add a part or the whole of such amount, if 
such parent, master or guardian is unable to pay the same. 
And the amount so added shall be levied, collected and paid 
into the treasury like other town taxes. 

Sec. 614. Towns may purchase and hold text-books for Towns may purchase 
use in their schools, if the town so votes in a meeting warned isysfko. 122, ^<i 9. 
for that purpose. 

Sec. 615. The selection of text-books made in pursuance selection of 1879 iu 
of law in the year 1879 shall be binding upon schools in ac- **"^*'®' 
cordance with the provisions of law then existing until a 
new selection of text-books is made in pursuance of this 
chapter. 



180 



REGISTERS AND RETURNS. 



[Title 10. 



Chapter 38. 



REGISTERS AND RETURNS. 



Sectiox 

616. State superintendent to prescribe 

form of register. 

617. To furnish copies to town superin- 

tendents. 

618. Town superintendents to receipt or 
notify of failure to receive. 

District clerks to obtain registers. 

Teacher to procure, fill out and re- 
turn register. 

Clei'li to certify to register; certifi- 
cate entitles teacher to pay. 



619. 
620. 



621. 



Sectiox 

622. Clerks to fill out and return registers 

to superintendent. 

623. Town superintendent to fill out and 

return to town clerk. 
624-626. Returns for fractional district. 

627. Town superintendent to forward sta- 

tistics to state superintendent. 

628. Returns by academies and grammar 

schools. 

629. By certain graded schools. 



Form of register. 

1878, No. 117. §6; 
1874, No. 33, H; 1872, 
No. 18, 5 2; G. S. 22, 
§ 109; 1858, No. 1, ^ 7. 



Copies furnished to 
town superintendents. 

1874, No. 33, >5 4 ; 1872, 
No. 18, ^2; G. S. 22, 
sS 109 ; 1858, No. 1, § 7. 



Town supt. to receipt ; 
notice of failure to re- 
ceive. 

1874, No. 33, H; 18'2, 
No. 18, ^2; G. S. 22, 
^ 109; 1858, No. 1, ^W. 



District clerks to obtain 
retristers. 

1876, No. 52, ^ 1 ; 1874, 
No. 33, H; 1872, No. 
18, ^2;G.S.22, iS109; 
1858, No. 1, ^ 7. 

Teaclier to procure, 
fill out and return 
register. 

1878, No. 117, ;j 1 ; 
1865, No. 30 ; 1864, 
No. 58 ; G. S. 22, 
§ 110; 1858, No. 1, ^^ 8. 
50 Vt. 30. 



Clerk's certificate. 

1867, No. 19 ; 18G5, 
No. 30; G. S. 22, 
^110; 1858, No. 1,5 8. 
50 Vt. 30. 
The section which 
preceded this in the 
Revised Laws, as 
passed, was made up of 
a session law expressly 
repealed by 1880, No. 
94, ^ 3 ; and has been 
struck out. 

Clerk to fill out and 
return register. 

1878, No. 117, ^S 1; 



Sec. 616. The state superintendent shall prescribe blank 
forms for a school register for keeping a record of the daily at- 
tendance of children upon the school, and containing printed 
interrogatories for procuring the statistical information required 
to be given by teachers, district clerks and town superintend- 
ents, and for procuring such further information as he thinks 
desirable. 

Sec. 617. The state superintendent shall annually in the 
month of January, furnish to town superintendents a sufficient 
number of such registers to supply the schools in their re- 
spective towns. 

Sec. 618. A town superintendent on receiving such regis- 
ters shall immediately forward to the state superintendent a 
receipt therefor, and if he fails to receive such registers before 
the first day of February he shall immediately notify the state 
superintendent, who shall supply the deficiency forthwith. 

Sec. 619. Each district clerk shall annually on or before 
the first week in March procure of the town superintendent a 
register for each school in his district, and shall be responsible 
for the safe keeping thereof. 

Sec. 620. Teachers of common or union schools shall, 
before commencing school, procure a register from the clerk 
of the district, and shall keep therein, in the prescribed form, 
a record of the daily attendance of each scholar, and shall 
enter therein correct answers to the interrogatories addressed 
to teachers, and shall lodge such register with the district clerk 
before the twentieth day of March. 

Sec. 621. A district clerk shall, when a register is de- 
livered to him as provided in the two preceding sections 
[§ 620], examine the same, and if he finds that said register is 
filled out as required by law, and properly certified to by 
the teacher, he shall so certify ; and the teacher shall not be 
entitled to his wages, except on presentation of said certificate 
of the district clerk to the prudential committee of the district 
in Avhich the school has been taught. 

Sec. 622. School district clerks shall comply with the 
requirements made of them in the registers delivered to them 



Chap. 38.] REGISTERS AND RETURNS. 181 

by the teachers, and shall file the same in the office of their i864, No. 58 ; g. s. 22, 
respective town superintendents on or before the twentieth 'i*' ^^'^' ^^^^'^°- ^' 's^^- 
day of March in each year. 

Sec. 623. The town superintendent shall enter in each Town supt. to ah out 
register the name of each teacher of the school for the school i878rNo.''i77^'f^*3', 4. 
year, and the date and origin of such teacher's certificate or 
license ; and if he finds from the register that the district has 
supported for the time required by law a school kept by a 
properly licensed teacher, and that the register has been 
properly filled by the district clerk, he shall so certify in the 
register, and shall lodge such register in the office of the town 
clerk before the Friday next preceding the last Tuesday in 
March. 

Sec. 624, The clerk of a district formed of parts of two cierk of fractional dis- 
or more towns shall return the school registers of such dis- rSter!'**'^*' *" '^''*"'" 
trict to the town superintendent of the town in which the 
school-house is located. Such town superintendent shall, 
before the Friday next preceding the last Tuesday in March, 
forward a copy of the certificate which he is required to make 
in such register, if he finds reason to make such certificate, to 
the superintendents of all the towns in which such school dis- 
trict is situated. 

Sec. 625. The clerk of a district formed of parts of two statistics returned by 
or more towns shall, on or before the twentieth day of March, ^Jf^k of fractional dis. 
make return to the town superintendent in each town, specify- IF^^P;,*^^,^'' ?•' l??*^' 

1 1 /-iMi -jiT-i 1 /. No. 9, \^ 2 ; G. S. 22, 

ing the number 01 children in the district between the ages ot ^s 86; u. s. is, v'i 33; 
five and twenty years, the number of said children residing in ^*^^^' ^°" ^^' ^^ ''• 
each of the towns composing such district, the aggregate 
attendance of children in such district residing in each town, 
the ago-reo-ate attendance of the whole number of children in 
such district residing in each town, and also the aggregate 
attendance of the whole number of children between the ages 
of five and twenty years in the district. 

Sec. 626. Town superintendents shall return the certifi- Return of town supt. to 
cates and returns received by them under the provisions of the ^**''^" '^^^^^' 
two preceding sections, to the town clerks of their respective 
towns before the Friday next preceding the last Tuesday in 
March annually. 

Sec. 627. Town superintendents shall annually on or before Return of town supt. to 
the tenth day of April, make out and return to the state super- i874,no!*33, >S5; g. s. 
intendent in the form prescribed by him the statistics of the 22, ^12; 1858, No. 1, 
schools in each district of their respective towns, and the state i849, No.i4,*^6;i847, 
superintendent upon the receipt of such returns shall forward ^°%25: ^,^5 ^n^'ir*^' 
a certificate therefor to the town superintendent making the 4 2; 1833, No. 19,' 6 1; 
return. 1^27, No. 23, § 5. 

Sec. 628. Trustees of incorporated academies and gram- Returns by academies 
mar schools shall cause their principals to return to the state 1374^^33^ r6';"G.'s. 
superintendent, on or before the first day of April annually, 22, ^ui3; I808, No. 1, 
answers to the statistical inquiries addressed to them by him in 
the month of January previous. 

Sec. 629. The trustees of each graded school district hav- Returns by certain 
ing a training school department shall, on the thirtieth day of i876f*No!'49!*i^ 3. 



182 



SCHOOL DISTRICT TAXES. 



[Title 10. 



June in each year, cause to bo made to the state superintend- 
ent a complete report of tlie number of scholars in attendance 
in the training school department during the year, and the 
number of certificates granted in each course of study, with 
matters pertaining to the regulation and government of said 
training school department. 



Chapter 39. 



SCHOOL TAXES AND SCHOOL MONEYS. 



630. 

631. 

632. 

633. 
634. 
635. 
636. 



Sectiox 

School District Taxes. 

School, how to be supported ; list, 
how constituted. 

Committee to lay tax ; rate bill, war- 
rant. 

Deduction for payment before day 
fixed. 

District may exempt poor persons. 

District may abate taxes. 

Board of abatement. 

Powers of officers in collecting tax. 

637. Collector to pay over moneys, and 

submit tax-book on committee's 
request. 

638. Committee to draw orders. 

United States Deposit Money. 

639. State treasurer to receive. 

640. To malie apportionment. 

641. To pay town's share to its trustees. 

642. Trustees to give receipt; to manage 

and report condition of fund. 

643. Trustee to give bond; if he fails, 

office vacant. 

644. Trustees to loan moneys. 

645. State treasurer to retain and manage 

shares, when. 

646. Town treasurer to give ci-edit for in- 

come received. 

647. Income, how to be appropriated. 

648. Towns liable to return monej's. 

649. Penalty on towns for neglect to com- 

ply with law. 



Section 

650. Grand jury to present. 

651. Duty of state treasurer in case of 

moneys loaned by predecessors. 

Town School Fund, 

652. Selectmen to manage and annually 

account for. 

653. Proceedings relative to, to be in 

town's name ; duty of selectmen. 

654. Tax-payer may take acknowledgment 

of or witness deeds under §§ 652, 
653. 

655. Securities to be kept by treasurer, 

&c. 

Town School Taxes. 

656. Towns may lay tax to support schools. 

657. State school-tax. 

658. Penalty for neglect to lay tax. 

659. Disposition of penalty. 

660. Grand juries to inquire and present. 

Division of Public Moneys. 

661. Selectmen to divide. 

662. Moneys, how divided. 

663. District, when denied share. 

664. Montpelier Union District, not af- 

fected. 

665. District, Avhen denied share. 

666. Share of union and graded school 

districts. 

667. Share of fractional districts. 

66S. Statement as to division, to be lodged 
mth town clerk. 



School, liOTT to be sup- 
ported ; district list. 

1864, No. 61; G.S.22, 
(JH5, 47, 50; 1850, 
No. 44 ; 1849, No. 16 ; 
R. S. 18, yS^S 15,16, 18; 
1833,No. 19, 6 2;1827, 
No. 23, ^ 11; 1824, p. 
10, $ 2 ; R. 1797, pp. 
495, 496, §^13,4; 1795, 
p. 9; R 1787, p. 137. 

31 Vt. 337. 37 Vt. 196. 

32 Vt. 769. 43 Vt. 123. 

Committee to make 
rate bill ; warrant. 

G. S.22, ^47; U.S. 
18, ^ 16 ; 1827, No. 23, 
6 11; R. 1797, p. 495, 
(J3; R. 1787, p. 137. 
i2Vt. 472. 27Vt.221. 
23 Vt. 416. 32 Vt. 769. 



SCHOOL DISTRICT TAXES. 

Sec. 630. All expenses incurred by a school district for 
the supptn't of schools in excess of public moneys received by 
the district, shall be defrayed by a tax upon the grand list of 
the district, which list shall be made up of the polls of inhabi- 
tants of the district, of the real estate lying in the district and 
of the personal estate taxable therein ; and real estate shall be 
taxed for school purposes only in the district in which it is 
situated. 

Sec. 631. The prudential committee shall, -as soon after 
the vote of the district for that purpose as the circumstance of 
the case may require, assess a tax for the amount voted to be 
raised, upon the district list, and make out a rate bill of the 
same ; and any justice of a county in which the whole or part 



Chap. 39.] SCHOOL DISTRICT TAXES. 183 

of such district is situated, shall, on application, make out a34Vt.94. 40Vt. 31. 
warrant, directed to the district collector, authorizing and ^*^*-^'^'^- '^^^^•^^^• 
requiring hhn to levy and collect such tax within the time lim- 
ited therein and pay the same to the treasurer of the district. 

Sec. 632. A district may by vote, at the meeting at which Deduction for Dayment 
a tax is voted, direct tlie collector to deduct a per cent., 'to be iszi^No!^ 14^*" ' 
fixed by said vote, from the tax of a person who pays his tax 
before a day fixed by said vote. Notice of the time and place 
at which he will attend to receive taxes so voted and allow 
such deduction, shall be posted by the collector in three public 
places in the district and advertised by him in each newspaper 
printed in the district, at least ten days before the time named 
in the notice : and the collector shall make no deduction in 
favor of a person who does not pay his tax before the day fixed. 

Sec. 633. A school district may, by a two-thirds vote of District may exempt 
tke voters present at a meeting, instruct the prudential com- g.**s". 22, ^"i 46 ; 1844, 
mittpe to omit in making up the tax-bill for the support of ^°- ^• 
schools the names of such persons as are unable to pay their 
proportion of such tax. 

Sec. 634. A school district may, by a two-thirds vote of May abate taxes, 
the voters present at a meeting, remit or make abatement on a ig^ ^'207 1833', No. 19, 
district tax-bill to an amount not exceeding five percent, of s^ 3; I827, No. 23, ^ 13. 
the same. 

Sec. 635. The officers of a school district, except the col- Board of abatement, 
lector, shall constitute a board for the abatement of school ' 
taxes, and as such shall have the powers which the board for 
the abatement of town taxes has in the abatement of town 
taxes. A majority of such officers shall constitute a quorum. 
The prudential committee, when requested thereto by the dis- 
trict collector, shall call a meeting of said board in the month 
of March in each year, previous to the annual school meeting, 
by posting notice thereof in three public places in said district 
at least five days before such meeting. 

Sec. 636. The district collector shall proceed in the same Power of collector, &c. 

'i 1 4-1 • 1 • 1 11 ^- G. s. 22, ^u 49, 51 : R. 

manner and have the same powers in levying and collecting g_ ^g^ ^^ff, 19 ; I827, 

district taxes, as town collectors in levyino' and collecting town No. 23, §§ 11, 12 ; r. 

. . . : ^ ® 1797 p 495 6 3 • II 

taxes, and shall within the time limited collect and pay the 1787', p! i'37'. ' 

same to the district treasurer ; and the prudential committee I6 vt. 439. 
shall have the same authority to enforce the collection and pay- 
ment of district taxes that town treasurers have to enforce the 
collection and payment of town taxes. 

Sec. 637. A district collector shall, on the written request collector to submit tax. 
of one of the prudential committee, pay to the district treas- 1874,'no.'ii, ^^^ 2, 3.° 
urer all moneys belonging to the district collected by him up 
to that time, and submit his tax-book and list to said treasurer 
for inspection and computation ; and a collector neglecting so 
to do shall, for every ten days' neglect, forfeit to the district 
one hundred dollars, to be recovered in an action on this 
statute. 

Sec. 638. The prudential committee shall draw their or- committee to draw 
ders upon the district treasurer for all sums due from the see ^5*2713 to 2715. 
district. ^■S22'J/8;1856, 

No. 38, ^ 1 . 



184 UNITED STATES DEPOSIT MONEY. [Title 10. 

UNITED STATES DEPOSIT MONEY. 

Treasurer to receive. Sec. 639. The treasurer of the state shall receive moneys 
18, 642; 1836', No. 15, belonging to the United States to be deposited with this state 
§ 1- and give a certificate of deposit for the same according to law. 

Apportionment. Sec. 640, Sucli monejs sliall be apportioned to the several 

r". s. 18*, ViS 43', 44,45; towns, organized and unorganized, and to the gores, in propor- 
1836, No. 15, ^^ 3, 5. ^Q^y to the number of inhabitants in each. When a census is 
taken under the laws of congress or of this state a new appor- 
tionment shall be made. If upon such new apportionment it 
appears that a town has more than its share, the treasurer of 
the state shall demand and recover from such town such excess ; 
and if a town has less than its share, he shall make up the defi- 
ciency to such town. 
Town's share to be paid Sec. 641. Tlic treasurer of the statc sliall pay over to the 
G.'s! 22,^^99'; R. s. trustees of the public money in each town which has elected 
18, ^ 49 ; 1836, No. 15, gygj-^ trustees, provided such trustees have executed the re- 
quired bond, the share of the deposit money apportioned to 
such town. 
Trusters' duty. Sec. 642. Such trustecs shall receive such town's share 

1842,' No. 13, ]' 1 ; II. of the dcposit moiiey and shall give the treasurer of the state 
i^i '^f'o^ foic^^^' ^^' a receipt therefor, similar to that o-iven by said treasurer to the 

12, ij 3 ; 1836, No. lo, f ^ p 1 t? • i "S n • i 

p. secretary oi the treasury oi the United btates ; and said trus- 

tees shall manage such money and report the condition of the 
same at each annual town meeting. 
r%^*w'iT9*'-''*9s-is4'i ^'E-G. 643. Such trustees before entering upon the duties 
No.*i37f2, R,. s'. 18,1 of their ofiice, shall execute a bond to the town with at least 
4-8 ; 1836, No. 15, i^ 2. three sufficient sureties in such sum as the selectmen direct, 
conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties in 
loaning, managing, accounting for, and paying over as may be 
required by law, the moneys placed in their charge under the 
provisions of this chapter. And if a trustee fails to execute 
such bond his office shall be vacant, and such vacancy may be 
filled as in other cases of vacancies in town offices. 
To loan moneys. Sec. 644. The trustecs of the public iiioiiey may loan the 

103, 105; 1842, No. 25; same to the town, if the town at a meeting warned for that 
is'sf N^' ^X^\'P'^'^'' purpose authorizes the selectmen to borrow it. If the mone}' 
is not loaned to the town, the trustees shall loan the same, with 
sufficient personal security or on mortgage, as they may deem 
safe, made payable to the respective towns, at an interest of six 
j)er cent, annually. Such loans shall be made for a term not 
exceeding one year ; and the moneys may be collected at the 
expiration of the term and loaned to other persons, or the loan 
may be extended to the same persons for an additional period. 
The trustees shall annually previous to the first day of March 
pay to the town treasurer the income received from such 
moneys, 
state treasurer, when Sec. 645. The treasurer of the state shall retain the share 

to retain sliares. ,. i,, i-ii , t i t , , t , 1 

1865, No. 39, ^U; G. apportioned to towns which have not elected trustees, and the 
No^lV^-^^844^No^7^-^' ^^hares of unorganized towns and gores, and shall annually pre- 
R. s. 18, H7 ; 1836,' vious to the first day of March pay to the treasurer of each 
^''^' ^'^' '= organized town not electing trustees, and to the treasurers of 



Chap. 39.] TOWN SCHOOL FUND. 185 

school districts in unorganized towns and gores which have 
maintained schools for the required length of time during the 
previous year, the interest upon the shares apportioned to such 
towns and gores. And he shall divide the interest money of 
each unorganized town or gore among the school districts 
therein in the manner provided for the distribution of town 
school moneys among the several districts in towns. 

Sec. 646. The treasurer of each town shall give credit in Town treasurer to give 
his account of the school fund, for all sums received by him as ^ s*'22,''*? 105; R. s. 
income from the town share of the deposit money. 18- § 5*- 

Sec. 647. The income from the deposit money I'eceived income^Jio^ to i>e ap- 
by each town shall be annually appropriated to the support of g. s. 22, §§ 104,_106; 
schools in the town. But if a town has other school funds the SsI.'no. il'^'^^^'e. 
income of which is sufficient to support schools in all the dis- 
tricts in such town for six months in each year, such town may 
appropriate the income received from its share of such money 
to the support of schools or to any purpose. 

Sec. 648. Towns Avhich have received their portion of the Town Habie to return 
deposit money shall be accountable for the return of the same, g!*s722, § lOO; R. s. 
or any part thereof, when required by the treasurer of the state 18^ ^ 50; 1836, No. 15, 
on requisition of the United States or for the purpose of a new 
apportionment, as towns are accountable for state taxes. 

Sec. 649. If a town fails to comply with the provisions of Penalty for neglect to 

, . , , . ,1 ^ "^ , T' •^' ^ comply with law. 

this chapter relative to the management or disposition ot g. s. 22, § 107 ; R. s. 
United States moneys received by such town, it shall forfeit ^^^^^ ^^ ' 1836, No. 15, 
to the treasurer of the county, for the use of such county, a 
sum not exceedinii: double the amount of the interest of such 
moneys. 

Sec. 650. The grand jury shall inquire how the towns have «rand jury to present, 
managed and disposed of the moneys so deposited with them, is, §'57 • i836, No.' 15', 
and the annual interest thereof; and if a town has not complied ] 7. 
with the provisions of this chapter relative to such deposit 
money they shall present to the court their indictment therefor 
against such town ; and notice thereof shall be given to such 
town as is required in case of indictment for not repairing 
highways. 

Sec. 651. The treasurer of the state, in the collection of »ut| o^ state treasurer, 
the United States deposit money loaned by former treasurers, ' °' '^'" 
shall adjust and settle the same as is for the interest of the 
state. 

TOWN SCHOOL FUND. 

Sec. 652. The selectmen of a town shall have charge of selectmen to manage, 

1,,- ij. •i.ji'j and annuaUy account 

the real and personal estate m such town appropriated as a lund for. 

to the use of schools therein, unless otherwise provided for by g 22, § %; r. s. is, i 

law, or unless the person giving any part thereof directs the 27; 1827, No. 23, § 3. 

same to be managed in some other way, and shall annually ren- 38 "Vt. 193. 

der an account to the town of their proceedings in connection 

therewith ; and the selectmen shall lease lands appropriated for 

such purpose, and loan moneys on annual or semi-annualinter- 

est, with sufficient security, and for such security may take 

mortgages or deeds of any real estate in the state. 



186 TOWN SCHOOL TAXES. [Title 10. 

» 

Procee(Hngrsasto,tobe Sec 653. The Securities for the payment of the moneys 

111 town's name ; duty iiii- 11 

of selectmen. SO loaned and the interest thereon, shall be taken ni the name 

s. 22, §%; R. s. 18, of the town, and the selectmen may, in the name of the town, 
s^ 27. prosecute and defend actions for the recover}^ or protection of 

the estate so intrusted to their care ; and if the title or posses- 
sion of real estate mortgaged or deeded as security- is recov- 
ered in such action, the selectmen may, in the name of the 
town, lease or sell and convey such real estate, and invest the 
moneys received therefrom as provided in the preceding sec- 
tion. 

knowit^lm^ntofdeed"' ^^^- ^^^- "^ person authoHzcd to take the acknowledg- 

&c. ' ment of deeds may take the acknowledgment of a deed pro- 

' ^ ■ vided for in the two preceding sections or may sign such deed 

as witness although he is an inhabitant and tax-payer of the 

town. 

freTsurer'&c!'''''*'^"'' ^^^- ^^^- ^^® sccurities belonging to the town school fund 

(f. s. 22, ^\ 79; R. s. shall be deposited in the office of the treasurer of the town ; and 

' * ' monej^s received on account of the same, shall be paid into 

such treasury ; and a separate account ot the same shall be kept 

on the books of the treasurer. 

TOWN SCHOOL TAXES. 

Town may lay tax to Sec. 656. A towu may at the annual town meetino;, or at 

fSKDDort sciiools ^ 

G. s. 22, i^ 8:^; °1842, a meeting warned for that purpose, raise money for the use of 
s^3i'-T82!'^:tN'o^23''6 22'- schools, by a tax on the list of such town. 

k. 1797, p. 497, §'7. 

State schooi.tax. Sec. 657. If in any year the income appropriated for the 

1870,No. 10, 6 8;G. S. i? 1 1 • ^ •^.\ 4. - j 1 -i . n. 

22, §\ 80, 81,82; 1842, 1'Jse 01 schools HI a towii With any tax voted by the town, after 
^|,%^^»-^o7"i^'^,^P' tleclncting one-half the income of the United States deposit 
§(9, 22; 1826, No. 44; money, amounts to a less sum than nine per cent, of the grand 
1826, No. 43, §1 ; 1824, j^g^ (~,f ^j^g towii, the Selectmen shall, previous to the first day 

p. 10, ^ 1 ; 1810, p. lo3. ' ' -C;, 1 n i t 

r2Vt. 127. 38Vt.22i. 01 Jaiiuaiy, assess a tax on the grand list, to be collected and 

i3Vt. 565. paid into the treasury before the first day of the succeeding 

March, for such amount as such sum is less than such nine per 

cent., for the use of schools in the town. But this section 

shall not apply to towns using the town system of schools. 

Penalty for neglect to Sec. 658. If the Selectmen of a town do not assess, col- 

Gfs!^22, §87; R. s. lect, or appropriate the tax for the support of schools as pro- 

l%^^-^m4^^'^'io^°5 3^^' ^i^^'^^^ ^^^ ^^'^'^^ chapter, the town shall forfeit to the county a sum 

i82i', p. 90', §1. ' ' equal to double the amount which the selectmen are required to 

i3Vt. 565. raise by tax, to be recovered by information or indictment hi 

the county court. 
Disposal of penalty. Sec. 659. Oiie-fourtli of SQcli iDciialty shall be for the use 

18, {Sol 1827, No. 23, of the couiity, and three-fourths shall be paid to the selectmen 
§ 18; 1821, p. 90, § 1. for the use of schools in such tov/n ; and the treasurer of the 
county, immediately after the receipt of such money, shall give 
notice thereof to the selectmen of the town, who shall forth- 
with receive, apportion, and appropriate the same to the sup- 
port of schools in such town, as if it had been raised by tax. 
^''^sVp'Tsq-'^^^^s"** ^'^^' 660. Grand juries shall annually inquire Avhether 
18, §"36; 1827, No. 23, towns ill their counties have assessed, collected, and expended 
§ 18; 1821, p 90, { 1. ^j^e tux for the support of schools, as required in this chapter ; 



Chap. 39.] DIVISION OF PUBLIC MONEYS. 187 

and in case of neglect they shall present their indictment thereof 
to the court. 

DIVISION OF PUBLIC MOXEYS. 

Sec. 661 . The selectmen of each town shall, on the Friday flso^NToM^fiSTe, 
next preceding the last Tuesday of March, divide the school No. bi; 1874, No. 4o! 
moneys in the treasury of such town among the school districts i864 No'59°'g's U 

in such town ; ^3 ; 1 858, No. i', f 5 i 

R. S. 18, ^32; 1827, 
No. 23, ^9. 

Sec. 662. If the amount of such moneys does not exceed Moneys, how divided, 
twelve hundred dollars, one-half thereof, and if it exceeds no. 51 "1874^^ No. lo' 
twelve hundred dollars, one-third thereof shall be divided amono- ^ 1 ; ^866, No. 9, ^ 1 ; 

,, , 1 ,.',.. . , , „ , o G. S. 22, ^^83; I860, 

the common school districts in such town equally, except as no5; 1858, No 1, ^^ 6; 
othei'wise provided in the case of districts only partially situated ^ ^os^^i o^^il \^-^9^7 
ill the town. The remainder of such moneys shall be divided pp,'493, 497. \SU, 7;' 
among the districts in the town, including union districts, in jjyj' p' jsg^^^' '^^ 
proportion to the aggregate attendance of scholars between the 
ages of five and twenty years upon the schools of the district 
during the preceding school year, except as otherwise provided 
ill the case of districts only partially situated in the town ; such 
aggregate attendance to be ascertained from the records thereof 
kept in the registers of such schools, by adding together the 
number of days of actual attendance of each scholar between 
the ages of five and twenty years. 

Sec. 663. The moneys shall be paid over, under the direc- District, when denied 
tion of the selectmeu, to the several treasurers of such districts ; isso^nq 94 <; 7- 1374 




;pi _j ,, „„,.^^„.^ ., 

each, or their equivalent, nor unless the registers of such dis- 7; r. i787,'p.'\36. ' 
trict for such year contain the certificate of the town super- 
intendent that a school has been maintained in such district for 
tlie required length of time by a properly licensed teacher, and 
that the registers have been filled out in compliance with law. 

Sec. 664. Nothing in the three preceding sections shall '•^""tP<'i'«'*«J5strict, not 

/*. TTij- 1 ®. T. ® affected. 

affect the Montpeiier union district. isso. No. 94, ^s s ; 1876, 

No. 51; 1874, No. 40, 
§ 1 ; 1866, No. 9, M ; 
O. S. 22, 6 83; 1860, 
No. 5. 

Sec. 665, No pu1:)lic money of any town shall be distributed ^^f^^^*^^' ^^^"^ **^°^'''^ 
to any school district for attendance of scholars at any school I880, No. 100. 
taught by a teacher who has not the certificate required by law, 
except for attendance at an academy in certain cases, as now 
provided for hy law, nor to any school district whose school 
register does not contain the certificate of the town superintend- 
ent as required by law. 

Sec. QQQ. Union or graded schools formed in pursuance of share of union and 

crr3.uG(l school flisto^rfia 

law, when the town in which they are located so votes, shall isos, Xo, 33, ^ 1. 
receive the same amount of that portion of the public school 
money which is distributed equally between the districts as 
the districts forming such graded or union districts would have 
received. 

Sec 667. When a district is formed of parts of two or shareofftactiottaidis. 

trict. 



188 



COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE. 



[Title 10. 



1874, No. 40, § 2; 1866, more towiis, such district shall receive from the treasury of each 

86°*R.^s^'i!?U3^^' ^^ town a proportion of the moneys so distributed, as follows : 

1827, No.23,'j8; ' I. Of that Dart which is divided equally among the dis- 

^,v-oo,i . tricts, a sum bearing the proportion to the sum severally 

received by the other districts in su( h town, which the number 

of children in such district, residing in such town, bears to the 

whole number of children in such districts 

II. Of that part which is divided among the districts in 

proportion to the aggregate attendance of scholars, a sum 

bearing the proportion to the whole sum to be divided in such 

town which the aggregate attendance of the whole number of 

children in such district, residing in such town, bears to the 

asfofreffate attendance of the whole number of children in such 

town. 

statement to be lodged Sec. 668. The Selectmen ill the moutli of April annually, 

g! s! 2^2,\^ 85; 1847, after they have made division of the public moneys, shall lodge 

No. 24, y^ 4. with the town clerk a written statement of the amount of 

money divided to each district during the current school year. 



Chapter 40. 



COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE ; GENERAL PROVISIONS. 



Section 

669. What children shall attend school ; 

penaltj' for permitting non-attend- 
ance. 

670. Penalty against children violating 

this law. 

671. Prosecution of parent, guardian or 

master. 

672. Complaint, what it shall state ; ap- 

peal. 

673. Certain children not to be employed 

in mills or factories; penalty for 
employing. 



Section 

674. No taxation for sectarian schools. 

675. Persons under five years of age shall 

not attend public schools. 

676. Use of school-house for certain pur- 

poses. 

677. School year, day, week and month. 

678. Evening schools. 

679. Tax to be assessed to pay execution 

against district. 



What children sh-iii .at- Sec. 669. Evciy cliild of good health and sound mind, 
fo^VeMimting^non-Rt- betwceii eight and fourteen years of age, shall attend a public 
1867'^No 35 ^u 3 school at least three months in the year, luiless such child has 
been otherwise furnished with the means of education for a like 
period of time, or has already acquired the branches of study 
taught in the public schools ; and a parent, master or guardian 
who permits his child, apprentice or ward to violate the pro- 
visions of this section, shall be prosecuted and fined as provided 
in section five hundred eighty-six [§ 673]. 

Sec. 670. A member of the prudential committee of a 
district, or a sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable of a town in 
Avhich the district is located, may arrest, and shall arrest upon 
application of three voters of the district, any child who is 
violating the provisions of the preceding section and who, 
during a term of the public school in the district in which he 
resides, is habitually found in the streets or other public place. 



Proceedings against 
children violating this 
law. 

1870, No. 13, ^^ 1. 



Chap. 40.] GENERAL PROVISIONS. Ksi> 

having no lawful occupation, or who is an habitual truant ; and 
shall take him to the school in said district and place him in 
charge of the teacher thereof; and shall give notice thereof in 
writing to, and shall therein require the parent, guardian or 
master to cause the child to attend school regularly. 

Sec. 671. If such parent, guardian or master does not Prosecution of parent, 
cause such child to attend school regularly for six days after fsfo, No.*'i3™y^*'2!*^' 
receiving such notice, having no good reason therefor, the 
officer making the arrest shall make complaint to a justice, and 
such justice shall issue a warrant directed to any sheriff or 
constable in the state, commanding him forthwith to arrest 
and bring before said justice, such parent, guardian or master, 
and such child ; and upon proof that the child was liable to 
arrest as provided in the preceding section and that the parent, 
guardian or master has received and not complied Avith the 
i^iotice and requirement before specified, the justice shall fine 
such parent, guardian or master not less than ten nor more 
than twenty dollars, which shall be paid into the treasury of 
the town for the benefit of schools in such town. 

Seo. 672. The complaint shall be sufficient if it states complaint ; appeal, 
that said parent, master or guardian neglects to send to school ' ^' '^^ ' • 
as required by law, his child, apprentice or ward, naming such 
child, apprentice or ward ; and prosecutions under such com- 
plaint shall be conducted like criminal prosecutions, and an 
appeal may in like manner be had to the county court. 

GENERAL PROVISIONS. 

Sec. 673. No child between ten and fourteen years of Employing children in 
age, who has resided in the state one year, shall be employed aity.""^ acory, pen. 
in a mill or factory unless such child has attended a public ^^®^' ■^°* ^°' '^^^'' "' "^' 
school three months during the preceding year. A person 
who employs a child in violation of this section shall forfeit 
not less than ten nor more than twenty dollars, to be recov- 
ered by prosecution before a justice, one-half to go to the 
complainant and one-half to the town in which the child 
resides. 

Sec. 674. No moneys raised upon the grand list shall be no taxation for sec- 
appropriated for the maintenance of strictly sectarian or re- i87'2"no.'*i*5.''' 
ligious schools. 

Sec. 675. No person under five years of age shall be no pupii under tire, 
received as a pupil in a public school. ^^'^^' ^^- ^^> ^ ^■ 

Sec. 676. A school district may allow the use of the use of schooi-house. 
school-house of such district for meetings for religious wor-^ '^°'^^' 
ship, lectures, and similar purposes, when not needed for 
school purposes. 

Sec. 677. The school year shall commence on the first day school year, day, week 
of April, and end on the last day of March following. In the l872^No*.^'6 ; G. s. 22, 
absence of express contract, a session of three hours in the ^^ ^^ ' ^^^7, No. 24, ^j 1 
forenoon and three in the afternoon shall constitute a school 
day, five such days a school week, and four such weeks a 
school month. 



100 



INSTRUCTION OF THE DEAF, &c. [Title 10. 



tje mn^ schoo s. Sec. 678. A clistrict mav, at ii meetin";, vote to establish 

18/4, No. 37, §2. . , , • . • .1 ^ 1 1 , 

evening" scnools, and may maintain the same as day schools 
are maintained ; and each session of such evening schools shall 
be treated as a half-day session of a public school. 

Sec. 679. When demand is made upon a school district 
for the payment of an execution issued against it, and the dis- 
'^ ' • ' ''^- • trict has no avaihible funds to pay the same, the prudential 
committee shall forthwith assess and collect a tax sufficient to 
pay the same and the charges and twelve per cent, interest, in 
the same manner as a tax voted by the district is assessed and 
collected. 



Tax to pay execution. 

G. S. 85, ^4; R. S. 
5, yUl; R. 1797, p 



Chapter 41. 



INSTRUCTION OF 



THE DEAF, DUMB, BLIND, IDIOTIC AND 
FEEBLE-MINDED. 



Commissioner. 

1872, No. 19; G. S.23, 

5 1 ; 1842, No. IG, ^ 1 ; 
R. S. 19, (J 1 ; 1833, 
No. 21, 6 2; 1825, No. 
31,^ 2. 

Report, compensation. 

1872, No. I'J, ^^7; G. S. 
23, ^S^ 8, 9; 1845, No. 
15, ^ 2; 1842, No. 16, 
V^^3, 4; R. S. 19, ^^ 7, 
8 ; 1826, No. 52 ; 1825, 
No. 31, ^ 2. 
Appropriations. 
1874, No. 81; 1872, No. 
19, § 1 ; 1869, No. 12 ; 
G. S.23, ^ 2; 1861, 
No. 34; R. S. 19, ^ 2; 
1S33, No. 21,61; 1830, 
No. 27; 1825, No. 31, 

6 1. 



Places of instruction. 

1872, No. 19, § 2 ; 1868, 
No. 40; G. S.23, 6 3; 
R. S. 19, 6 3; 1833, 
No. 21, 6 2; 1825, No. 
31, § 2. 



Section 

680. Commission and board of instruc- 

tion. 

681. Report of commissioner ; compensa- 

tion. 

682. Annual appropriations. 

683. Places of instruction. 

684. Board of civil authority to certify 

statistics to county clerk. 



Section 

685. County clerk to make returns to the 

governor. 

686. Powers of commissioner. 

687. Selectmen to execute bond of in- 

demnity a^ralnst certain expenses. 

688. Town to defray expenses of convey- 

ance. 



Statistics certified to 
county clerk. 

1872, No. 19, f 3; G. 



Sec 680. The governor shall be by virtue of his office 
commissioner of the deaf, dumb and blind, and of the idiotic 
and feeble-minded children of indigent parents, and as such 
commissioner shall constitute the board for their instruction. 

Sec 681. He shall annually report to the legislature his 
proceedings under this chapter with an account of the expendi- 
tures arising therefrom, and shall receive fifty dollars annually 
for his services as such commissioner. 

Sec 682. A sum not exceeding five thousand dollars is 
annually appropriated for the benefit of the deaf ^md dumb, 
and a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars for the benefit 
of the blind, and a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars 
for the benefit of the idiotic and feeble-minded children of in- 
digent parents, to be used agreeably to the provisions of this 
chapter. 

Sec 683. Until provision is otherwise made by law the 
beneficiaries mentioned in this chapter shall be instructed at 
the following places : the deaf and dumb at the American 
Asylum for the education of the deaf and dumb at Hartford, 
Connecticut, or the Clarke Institution at ISrorthampton, Massa- 
chucetts ; the blind at the New England institution for the in- 
struction of the blind at Boston, Massachusetts ; and the idi- 
otic and feeble-minded children at the Massachusetts school 
for idiotic and feeble-minded youth, at Boston. 

Sec 684. The board of civil authority in each town shall 
ascertain, and certify to the county clerk on or before the first 



Chap. 41.] INSTRUCTION OF THE DEAF, &c. 101 

day of February annually, the number of deaf and dumb per- s. 23, §i; I84i, Ho. 
sons and the number of blind persons in such town, their ages, ?833,No.21,§3;'i82.5, 
conditions and circumstances, and the ability of thjir parents No. 31, § 3. 
to educate them, the names of all idiotic and feeble-minded 
children between the ages of five and fourteen years residing 
in such town and the pecuniary ability and circumstances of 
their parents or the persons bound to support them, and 
whether in the opinion of such l:>oard the persons enumerated 
and named are proper subjects of the. charity of the state, and 
whether they and their parents or guardians are willing they 
should become beneficiaries of either of the institutions men- 
tioned in the preceding section, or such other institution as is 
provided by law for the instruction of such persons. 

Sec. 685. Each county clerk shall make return to the gov- county cierk to make 
ernor, before the first day of March in each year, of the infor- i87"27no. 19, § 4; g. 
mation he receives from the several boards of civil authority in ^i'^h^'^, s^*i\^!'5; 

his county. 1833, No. 21,"^ 3; 1825, 

•^ _ _ _ No. 31, § 3. 

Sec. 686. The governor may designate beneficiaries, as Powers of commis- 
aforesaid, may direct the auditor of accounts to draw orders on 1372, No. 19, ^ 5; g. 
the treasury for any part of the appropriations provided "^ fg^f\^^i^4\^N'o^"2, 
section five hundred ninety-five [§ 6S2] ; may superintend and ^4;R.'s.i9,V5v1«?3, 
direct all concerns relating to the education of deaf, dumb, j^^°- ^^ T'^; i825,No. 
blind, idiotic, or feeble-minded persons, inhabitants of the state, 
and may allow all or any portion of the expenses of their con- 
veyance to, and support in, the institutions in which they are 
instructed for such time as he deems proper ; and he ma}^ in 
his discretion take bonds to indemnify the state against ex- 
penses which accrue in consequence of the sickness, clothing, 
or transportation of any beneficiary. 

Sec. 687. The selectmen of the several towns in this state Bond of indemnity, 
are hereby authorized and empowered to execute in their ofii- , o. .. . 
cial capacity in behalf of their respective towns, without a 
previous vote {;f said town for that purpose, the bond which 
may be required to be given by the town to indemnify the state 
against expenses which may accrue in consequence of the sick- 
ness, clothing or transportation of the deaf, dumb and blind 
state beneficiaries from such town. 

Sec. 688. When a person is designated a beneficiary, the Expenses of convey- 
town in which he resides shall defray the expenses of his con- 1872I No. 19, ^^ 6 -, g.s. 
veyance to and from the institution in which he is to be 23, ^^7; i858, No. 3. 
instructed if in the opinion of the selectmen his parent or 
guardian is not able to pay the same. 



PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 



COMPENSATION OF TOWN SUPERINTENDENT. 



School superintendent. Sec 4540. Each towii Superintendent of sshools shall 
1880, No. 101. receive one dollar and fifty cents for each day necessarily spent 

in the discharge of his legal duties ; but such nuniber of days 
spent in the visitation of schools shall not exceed in any case 
the number of terms of schools taught in the town of which he 
is superintendent. He shall also be allowed the sum of one 
dollar and fifty cents for each day necessarily spent in making 
his annual report to the state superintendent of education, and 
in making his annual report to the town meeting, provided 
such report is either written or printed, and ten cents per mile 
one way for necessary travel in attending the annual county 
meeting of town superintendents, as noM^ provided by law. 
Town may vote superin- Sec. 4541. A towu may at its auuual meeting or at a 
1865!no!*29.''^^' meeting warned for that purpose vote to pay its superin- 
tendent out of the town treasury such sum in addition to the 
pay provided by law for his services as appears reasonable. 



INDEX. 



INDEX. 



A. 

ABATEMENT of school district taxes, §§ 634, fi35. 
ACADEMIES, trustees of, to return statistics, § 628. 

district may contract for instruction of scliolars at, &c., §§ 568-570. 
ACCOUNTS, town superintendent's, §§ 460, 461. 

AGE, children under certain, not to be admitted to public school, § 675. 
APPROPRIATIONS to normal schools, §§ 472, 473. 

payment of, conditioned, §§ 465, 471, 473. 
ARREST, of child not attending school, § 670. 

ATTENDANCE, compulsory, upon school, provisions as to, §§ 669-672. 
AUDITORS, of school district, §§ 508, 514. 

B. 

BLANKS, state superintendent to furnish, § 458. 
BLIND, provision for the instruction of, § 680, et seq. 
BOARD, county examining, §§ 477-484. 

normal school examining, § 466. 
BONDS, of school district collector, §§ 511, 512. 

of trustees of public money, § 643. 
BOOKS, school text-books, §§ 609-615. (See Text-books.) 

c. 

CERTIFICATES, of graduation from normal schools, granting of, § 466. 
of graduation from normal school, effect of, § 475. 
of graduation from training school, § 475. 
teachers' certificates : 

state certificates, §§ 475, 476. 
county certificates, §§ 479-483. 
town certificates, blanks for, § 453. 

examinations for, § 487 ; issuing of, § 488. 
how long in force, § 491. 

of whom obtained when no town superintendent, § 489. 
of whom town superintendent may obtain one, § 490. 
list of, granted, to be lodged in clerk's office, § 492. 
in general, §§ 493-498. 

teachers to submit, to town superintendent, § 493. 
teachers must have, or contract void ; exception, §§ 494, 496. 
may be revoked or annulled, § 497. 

committee liable for moneys paid to teacher without, § 495. 
if teacher without, district may not share in public moneys, § 665. 
CHILDREN, required to attend school, unless, §§ 669-672. 
under certain age, not to be admitted to public school, § 675. 



INDEX. 

CLERK, of school district, election of, § 508; of union district, § 576. 

to give notice of election or appointment and number of district to town 
clerk, § 517. 
neglecting, to receive no compensation, § 517. 
to be member of board for abatement of taxes, § 635. 
office of, may be vacated if district fails to provide school, § 561. 
vacancies in office of, how filled, § 518. 
to warn meetings, § 519. 
to record proceedings of meeting and certify same, § 517. 

penalty for neglect, § 517. 
to record proceedings and returns of selectmen, when, §§ 528, 533. 
to record proceedings of judge locating school house, § 533. 
in absence of, committee to perform duties of, §§ 516, 519. 

liability of, for neglect in certain cases, §§ 517, 520. 
to procure register of town superintendent, § 619. 
to certify whether teacher has properly filled out register, § 621. 
to fill out blanks and return register, § 622. 
of fractional district, duty of, as to making returns, §§ 624, 625. 
may apply to judges when divided district fails to agree as to distribution of 

district property, § 549. 
to be elected by town at meeting abolishing town system, § 608. 

duties of clerk so elected, § 608. 
school directors under town system to have duties of, § 597. 
COLLECTOR, of school district taxes ; election, term of office, § 508. 
of union districts, § 576. 
town collector may be, § 510. 

office of may be vacated if district fails to provide school, § 561. 
bond of, § 511. 

neglecting to give bonds or perform duties, office vacant, § 512. 
vacancies in office of, how filled, § 518. 
general powers and duties, § 636. 

meeting of board of abatement of taxes, to be called on request of, § 635. 
town collector to collect tax assessed by selectmen in certain cases, §§ 531, 561. 
COMMITTEE. (See Prudential Committee.) 

COMPENSATION of town superintendent, §§ 4540, 4541 ; town to pay, § 460. 
COMPULSORY attendance, §§ 669-672. 
CORPORATION, school district to be, § 507. 

union district to be, § 573. 
COUNTY EXAMINING BOARD, §§ 477-484. 
COURSES of study in normal schools, §§ 464, 465. 

in training school departments of graded schools, § 474. 

D. 

DAY, school day, § 677. 

DEAF, provisions for instruction of, § 680, et seq. 

DEBTS, due to and from districts not alfected by alterations in district, § 557. 

DEDUCTION, for payment of school district tax before day fixed, § 632. 

DEPOSIT MONEYS, U. S., apportionment of, § 640. 

treasurer to pay over shares to towns electing trustees, § 641. 
to retain and manage shares, when, § 645. 

duties in collection of moneys loaned by former treasurer, § 651. 
trustees to receive, manage and report, § 642. 
trustees to give bond for faithful management of, &c. , § 643. 

office vacant if not given, § 643. 
loans of, regulated; income to be paid to town treasurer, § 644. 
town treasurer's duty as to, § 646. 



INDEX. 

DEPOSIT MONEYS, U. S. — continued. 

income from to be appropriated to schools, except, § 647. 

towns liable to return, § 648. 

towns how liable for misappropriation of, §§ 649, 650. 

division of income of, § 661 et seq. 
DIRECTORS, school directors under town system, §§ 594-600. 
DISTRICTS, school. (See Schools.) 
DIVISION of public school moneys, §§ 661-668. 
DUMB, provisions for the instruction of, § 680, et seq. 

E. 

EVENING SCHOOLS, § 678. 

EXAMINATIONS, in normal schools, § 466. 

in training school departments of graded schools, § 474. 
of candidates for teachers' certificates : 

by county examining board, §§ 479-483. 
by town superintendents, §§ 487, 489, 490. 

by what superintendent made in case of fractional district, §§ 501, 502. 
EXAMINING BOARD, COUNTY, §§ 477-484. 
EXECUTION, against district, tax to be assessed to meet, § 679. 

F. 

FACTORY, child not to be employed in, unless it has attended school, § 673. 
FEEBLE-MINDED, provision for instruction of, § 680, et seq. 
FEES, of assistant judges dividing school-district property, § 556. 
fixing location of school house, § 533. 
commissioners to apportion property of fractional district, § 592. 
normal school examiner, § 466. 
members of county examining board, § 478. 
town superintendent, §§ 4540, 4541. 
town to pay, § 460. 

examining teacher at other than public examination, § 487. 
school district clerk, not entitled to, when, § 517. 
chairman and members of board of school directors, § 600. 
clerk of school board for making registration returns, § 596. 

G. 

GORE, mode of organizing school districts in, § 504. 

school district in, entitled to share of U. S. deposit money, §§ 640, 645. 

inhabitants of adjoining town may be set to school district in, § 505. 
GOVERNOR, to appoint normal school examiner, § 466. 

to fill vacancies in office of state superintendent, § 452. 

duties, &c. as to deaf, dumb, blind, &c., § 680, et seq. 
GRADED SCHOOL, defined, § 571. 

principal of, not required to have certificate, § 496. 

training school department of, §§ 474-476, 629. 

trustees of, to return statistics to state superintendent, § 629. 

board of school directors may establish, in town using town system, § 597. 

district, share of public moneys allowed to, § 666. 

to choose members of text-book committee, § 609. 
not to be abolished for town system, except, § 604. 
GRAMMAR SCHOOL, trustees to send statistics to state superintendent, § 628. 

lands, to be included in quadrennial appraisal and list printed, §§ 312, 313. 
exemption of, from taxation, § 270, VI. 



INDEX. 

GRAND JURY, to present towns for neglect to assess state school tax, § 660. 

to present towns for misappi-opriating U. S. deposit money, § 650. 
GRAND LIST of school district, how constituted, § 630. 

moneys raised on, not to be appropriated to sectarian schools, § 674. 

I. 

IDIOTIC, and feeble-minded, provision for instruction of, § 680, et seq. 
INSTITUTES, teachers', §454. 

J. 

JUDGES, ASSISTANT, of county court : 

duties and fees in locating school house, § 533. 

to appoint commission for altering fractional school district, § 547. 

powers and duties in dividing school district property, §§ 549-556. 

to appoint appraisers when town abolishes district system, § 590. 

to appoint commissioners to apportion property of fractional district, § 592. 
JUSTICE, may issue warrant for collecting district tax, § 631. 

to certify town superintendent's accounts, § 460. 

duties of, in deciding as to dissolution of fractional district, § 547. 

L. 

LANDS, taking of, for school purposes, §§ 534-542. 

LOCATION of school house, how fixed when district fails to agree, §§ 526-52^ 
533. 

M. 

MEETINGS, of school districts : 

first meeting; in common school districts, § 503; union district, § 575. 

annual meeting; common school districts, § 519; nnion distiict, § 575. 

special meetings to be called on voters' application, § 519. 

meetings by whom to be warned, § 519 ; penalty for neglect, § 520. 

requisites of warning, § 521. 

"meeting" deemed to mean meeting legally warned, § 522. 

meetings, pi'oceedings of, to be recorded by clerk, § 517. 

voters in meeting, who are, §§ 523, 524. 

right to vote, if challenged, how determined, § 523. 
MILL, child not to be employed in, unless it has attended school, § 673. 
MODERATOR, electiou, term of office, § 508; in union districts, § 576. 

vacancies in office of, how filled, § 518. 

to be member of board of abatement, § 635. 

duties, § 513. 

in case of absence of, moderator j)?'o tern, may be chosen, § 513. 
MONEYS, U. S. deposit, §§ 639-651. 

school moneys, division of, §§ 661-668. 

raised by taxation, not to be appropriated to sectarian schools, § 674. 
MONTH, school month, § 677. 

N. 

NORMAL SCHOOLS, where situated; continued till when, § 462. 
boarding houses for pupils in, not taxable, § 270, VII. 
teachers in, § 463. 
courses of study, §§ 464, 465. 
examinations and examining board, § 466. 
scholarships, §§ 467-471. 

each town entitled to one, § 467. 



INDEX. 

NORMAL SCHOOLS — continued. 

scholarships, appointee to, maj^ attend either school, § 467. 

town superintendent to appoint to, § 468. 

town superintendent may recommend for, § 469. 

vacant, may be assigned, § 470. 

town not to have more than ten in one term, § 470. 

number of, not to exceed number of towns in state, § 470. 

at what sum reckoned ; money how drawn, § 471. 
appropriations to, §§ 472, 473. 

payment of, conditioned, §§ 465, 471, 473. 
certificate of graduation fi'om, to be license to teach, § 475. 

certificate may be renewed, § 476. 
WOTICE for school district meeting, requirements of, § 521. 

o. 

OFFICERS, of school districts; election, term of office, § 508; in union dis- 
tricts, § 576. 
women eligible, § 524. 

except collector to be board of abatement of taxes, § 635. 
offices of, may be vacated if district fails to provide school, § 561. 
vacancies in office of, how filled, § 518. 

to retain powers after dissolution of district for paying and collecting debts, 
§ 557. 
{See under names of particular officers.) 
ORGANIZATION of school districts : 
in organized towns, § 503. 
in unorganized towns and gores, § 504. 
by parts of fractional districts after dissolution, § 548. 
after abolishment of town system, §§ 606, 608. 

P. 

POOR PERSONS, district may direct names of, to be omitted from tax-bill, 

§ G33. 
PRUDENTIAL COMMITTEE ; election, term of office, §§ 508, 509. 

in vmion districts, §§ 576, 577. 

in town high or central districts, §§ 580, 582. 
who to be chairman of, § 508. 
vacancies in office of, how filled, § 518. 

in case of town high or central districts, § 583. 
duties of, in union and town high or central districts, §§ 576, 584. 
to be members of board for abatement of taxes, § 635. 
to notify meetings of such board, § 635. 
to keep school house in order, § 515. 
if there is none, to provide place for school, § 515. 
, to see that fuel, furniture and appendages are provided, § 515. 
to warn school district meetings, when, § 519. 

penalty for neglect to warn, § 520. 
to discharge duties of district clerk in his absence, § 516. 

penalty for neglect, § 517. 
to adopt measures for school's improvement, § 515. 
to hire and remove teachers, § 515. 

their contracts with teacher without certificate, void, § 494. 
liable to district for moneys paid to an unlicensed teacher, § 495. 

exception in case of principal teachers, § 496. 
not to pay for services after certificate revoked, unless, § 497. 



INDEX. 

PRUDENTIAL COMMITTEE — continued. 

to pay teacher only on clerk's certificate that register is filled, § 621. 
to draw orders on treasurer, § 638. 
may apply to selectmen to locate school house, § 526. 
to apply when owner of lands taken refuses to convey, § 534. 
may agree to refer question of damages in such case, § 537. 
when several schools, to regulate as to admissions, § 572. 
may arrest children not attending school, § 670. 
on arresting child, to complain to a justice, § 671. 

when directed, to arrange for sending scholars to adjoining district or to acad- 
emy, §§ 564, 567, 568. 
to notify parents, &c. if child not furnished text-books, § 612. 
to furnish text-books if parents, &c. neglect, § 612. 
to notify listers of names of childrea, &c. supplied, § 613. 
to assess tax to meet execution, § 679. 
when taxes voted, to make tax-bill, § 631. 
may be directed to omit poor persons from tax-bill, § 633. 
may require collector to give bonds, § 511. 

may require collector to pay moneys and submit tax-book, § 637. 
power of to enforce payment of tax, § 636. 
of union district, to regulate admission to union school, § 574. 
of town high or central, to regulate admissions and tuition, § 587. 

may assess tax, § 588. 
directors under town system have powers of, § 597. 
PITBLIC MONEYS, division of, §§ 661-668. 

raised by taxes, not to be appropriated to sectarian schools, § 674. 
U. S. deposit money, §§ 639-651. 
town school fund, §§ 652-655. 

B. 

REGISTERS, state superintendent to prescribe blank form for, § 616. 
state superintendent to furnish to town superintendents, § 617. 
town superintendent to receipt or notify of failure to receive, § 618. 
district clerks to procure of town superintendent, § 619. 

responsible for keeping of, § 619. 
teachers to procure, fiU; and return, § 620. 
clerk to certify to being properly filled out, § 621. 

teacher to be paid only on presenting such certificate, § 621. 
clerk to fill out and return, § 622. 

clerk of fractional district to what superintendent to return, §§ 624, 502. 
town superintendent to make entries and certificate in and return to town clerk, 
§ 623. 
how to return certificate in case of a fractional district, § 624. 
school moneys divided according to attendance as stated in, § 662. 
district to receive no moneys unless register contains town superintendent's 
certificate, §§ 663, 665. 
RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS, moneys raised by taxes not to be given to, § 674. 
REPORT, of state superintendent of education, §§ 456, 457. 
of board of school directors, § 599. 

s* 

SCHOLARSHIPS, in normal schools, §§ 467-471. 
each town entitled to one, § 467. 
appointee may attend either school, § 467. 
town superintendent to appoint to, § 468. 
town superintendent may recommend for, § 469. 



INDEX. 

SCHOLARSHIPS — continued. 

vacant, may be assigned, § 470. 
town not to have more than ten in one term, § 470. 
number of, not to exceed number of towns in state, § 470. 
at what sum reckoned; money how drawn, § 471. 
SCHOOLS, 

normal schools, §§ 462-473. 

teachers, § 463 ; courses of study, §§ 464, 465 ; examinations, § 466. 
scholarships, §§ 467-471; state appropriations, §§ 472, 478. 
effect of certificates of graduation ; renewal of certificates, §§ 475, 476. 
training school departments of graded schools, §§ 474-476, 629. 
teachers, certificates, granting of, §§ 475-491, 501. ( See Certificate.^ 
certificates to be submitted to town superintendent, § 493. 

teachers must have or contract void ; exception, §§ 494, 49.6. 
may be revoked or annulled, §§ 497, 498. 
committee liable for moneys paid to teacher without, § 495. 
' if teacher without, district may not share in public moneys, § 665. 
prudential committee to appoint, agree with, and remove, § 515. 
entitled to wages only on presentation of clerk's certificate that register is 

properly filled, § 621. 
may ask person annoying school by staying at or near it, to depart, § 4230. 

person refusing to withdraw how punished, § 4230. 
institutes and educational meetings, §§ 454, 455. 
school districts ; organization, meetings, oflB.eers, alterations in, 
towns to be divided into ; division how to be made, § 499. 
to be numbered ; numbers and descriptions to be recorded, § 500. 
how formed of parts of two or more towns, § 501. 

districts so formed held to be of what town and county, §§ 501, 502. 
organization of, §§ 503, 504; of union district, § 573. 

by parts of fractional districts after .dissolution, § 548. 
to be corporations with usual powers, §§ 507, 578. 

organized under previous law to continue as legal scliool districts, § 506. 
may be abolished and town system substituted, § 589. 
persons may be set to, by vote of district in adjoining town, § 505. 
union, §§ 573-578. 

MEETINGS AND VOTERS : 

first meeting; in common school district, § 503; union district, § 575. 
annual meeting; common school district, § 519; union district, § 575. 
special meetings, to be called on voters' application, § 519. 
meetings by whom to be Avarned, § 519 ; penalty for neglect, § 520. 
requisites of warning, § 521. 

" meeting " deemed to mean meeting legally warned, § 522. 
meetings, proceedings of to be recorded by clerk, § 517. 
voters in meeting, who are, §§ 523, 524. 
right to vote if challenged how determined, § 528. 
OFFICERS; election, term of office, § 508; in union districts, § 576. « 

women eligible, § 524. 

except collector, to be board for abatement of taxes, § 635. 
offices of, may be vacated if district fails to provide school, § 561. 
vacancies in office of, how filled, § 518. 

to retain powers after dissolution of district, for paying and collecting 
debts, § 557. 
{See further under names of particular officers.) 

AI.TERATIONS IN DISTRICTS : 

towns may by vote divide, unite, and alter districts, § 545. 

cannot be made unless set forth in warning of town meeting, § 545. 

when made must be recorded in town clerk's office, § 500. 



INDEX. 

SCHOOLS — continued. 

school districts ; organization, meetings, oflBcers, etc. — continued. 

ALTERATIONS IN DISTRICTS — COntillUecl. 

proceedings in dissolving fractional districts, §§ 546, 547. 
distribution of property and paj^ment of damages, § 547. 
inhabitants of fractions after dissolution may organize, § 548. 
proceedings when divided districts fail to agree as to distribution of 
property, §§ 549-556. 
application to be had to judges, § 549. 
judges to notify hearing and determine matter, § 550. 
if property not divisible, may be sold and proceeds divided, § 551. 
may set property to one district and fix sum to be paid, § 552. 
such sums not paid, district to which due may recover, § 553. 
judge when disqualified, § 554; compensation, § 556. 
judges to malie return; same to be recorded, § 555. 
towns may abolish districts and adopt town system, § 589. 

distribution of district property in such case, §§ 590-593. 
districts how may unite with and separate from union districts, § 578. 
alterations in districts not to aflTect debts due to and from same, § 557. 
school house, district may lay tax to provide, or place for school, § 525. 
union district may raise money to provide, § 573. 
towns using town system to provide and maintain, § 603. 
district may vote to erect more than one, § 572. 
district may elect committee to superintend building, &c., § 543. 
school directors under town system to construct, § 603. 
location of, how fixed, §§ 526-528, 533. 
in towns using town system, § 603. 
when district fails to provide, voters may apply to selectmen, § 529. 
selectmen to hear parties, § 529. . 

may order school house built, § 530. 
may build it themselves if district neglects, § 531. 
proceedings of, to be recorded, § 532. 
location how fixed, if they fail to agree, § 533. 
prudential committee to keep in order, § 515. 

to provide furniture, fuel, and appendages for, § 515. 
to become property of town on adoption of town system, § 590. 
what town to take, of fractional district, § 591. 
to be restored to district on abolishment of town system, § 607. 
district may sell, with lands connected, § 544. 
directors, under town system, may sell, § 603. 
district may allow use of for religious meetings, &c., § 676. 
taking lands for school purposes, 

when owner refuses to convey for reasonable price, damages to be assessed 

by selectmen, § 534. 
damages to be tendered or paid before entry, § 534. 
owner to be given time to remove buildings, fences, &c., § 535. 
proceedings to be recorded, § 536. 

owner dissatisfied with damages, reference may be had, § 537. 
person interested dissatisfied, may apply to court, § 538. 
proceedings in case of application to court, §§ 538-540. 
when the lands selected are mortgaged, § 541. 
title to vest on payment of damages finally awarded, § 542. 
maintenance of schools, 

schools to be maintained in each town, § 558. 

branches required to be taught, § 558. 

district may assess tax to support school, § 559 ; union district, § 573. 

instruction required to be furnished by every district, § 560. 



INDEX. 

SCHOOLS— continued. 

maintenance of schools — continued. 

if instruction not furnislied, voters may apply to selectmen, § 560. 

if fractional district, such application to what selectmen made, §. 563. 

duties and powers of selectmen on application had to them, § 561. 

if sufficient instruction furnished district may have moneys, § 562. 
district may maintain evening schools, § 678. 

evening session treated as half day session, § 678. 
district may vote to have more than one school, § 572. 

may have higher branches taught at one school, § 572. 

may regulate admission to high school, § 572. 
schools to be kept in each of districts forming union district, § 574. 
prudential committee to provide a suitable place for schools, § 515. 
providing instruction out of district or at academy, §§ 564-570. 
sending scholars to neighboring district in state, §§ 564, 565. 

to an adjoining town, by town using town system, § 566. 

to district in adjoining state, § 567. 

to academy, §§ 568-570. 
compulsory attendance, §§ 669-672. 
what children shall attend, § 669. 
penalty for permitting children to violate law, § 669. 
arrest of children for non-attendance, § 670. 
child arrested to be taken to school, § 670. 
notice, on arrest, to be given to parent, &c., § 670. 
parent, &c. not causing child to attend after notice, proceedings, § 671. 
officer arresting child to complain to justice, § 671. 
parent, &c. to be fined, § 671. 

prosecution for permitting non-attendance, §§ 671, 672. 
graded, high or central and union schools, 
graded schools, defined, § 571. 

school directors may establish, in towns using town system, § 597. 

principals of, not required to have certificates, §496. 

incorporated, may have training school department, § 474. 
provisions as to, §§ 474-476; returns from, § 629. 

incorporated, not to be abolished for town system, except, § 604. 

districts, share of public moneys allowed to, § 666. 
to choose members of text-book committee, § 609. 
district high schools, § 572. 
union school district, formation, powers, school house how located, § 573. 

schools to be kept in uniting districts, § 574. 

union school, who may attend, § 574. 

meetings, § 575 ; officers, §§ 576, 577. 

board for abatement of taxes, § 635. 

districts how to unite with or withdraw from union, § 578. 

shai-e of public moneys, §§ 662, 666. 

principals not required to have certificates, § 496. 
town high or central schools, §§ 579-588. 
town system ; abolishing districts and dividing property, §§ 589-593. 
board of school directors, to be elected when districts abolished, § 594. 

term of office of; vacancies, § 594. 

chairman, election; powers of, § 595. 

clerk of, appointment, duties, § 596. 

general powers of, § 597. 

power as to school houses, § 603. 

may receive students from other towns, § 598. 

may provide for schooling of scholars in adjoining town, § 566. 



INDEX. 

S CHOOLS — continued. 

town system — continued. 

board of school directors, to be text-book committee, § 609. 

to notify parent, &c., if child not furnished text books, § 612. 
to furnish text-books when parents, &c. neglect, § 612. 
to notify listers of names of parents, &c., in such case, § 613. 
to make annual report and exhibit of warrants drawn, § 599. 
compensation of members, § 600. 
selectmen to assess school tax, § 601. 

treasurer to keep account of school moneys and pay warrants, § 602. 
towns to provide school houses, § 603. 
provisions not to apply to certain graded school districts, unless, § 604. 

nor to fractional districts, unless, § 604. 
town system how abolished ; proceedings on abolishment, §§ 605-608. 
text-books, committee to select, how constituted; vacancies, § 609. 
duties of committee; report to be printed and distributed, § 610. 
use of books other than those recommended unlawful, § 611. 
selection of, what town to govern in fractional district, §§ 501, 502. 
scholars to be provided with books by school authorities if parent, master 

or guardian neglects, § 612. 
price of books to be added to tax of parent, &c., § 613. 
towns may keep, for use in schools, § 614 ; authorized list, § 615. 
registers and returns, §§ 616-629. 

registers, state superintendent to prescribe blank form for, § 616. 
state superintendent to furnish to town superintendents, § 617. 
town superintendent to receipt or notify of failure to receive, § 618. 
district clerks to procure of town superintendent, § 619. 

responsible for keeping of, § 619. 
teachers to procure, fill, and return, § 620. 
clerk to certify to being properly filled out, § 621. 

teacher to be paid only on presenting such certificate, § 621. 
clerk to fill out and return, § 622. 

clerk of fractional district to what superintendent to return, § 624. 
town superintendent to make entries and certificate in and return to 
town clerk, § 623. 
how to return certificate in case of a fractional district, § 624. 
school moneys divided according to attendance as stated in, § 662. 
district to receive no moneys unless register contains town superin- 
tendent's certificate, §§ 663, 665. 
returns to be made by clerk of fractional district, § 625. 
town superintendents to return certificates and returns received under 

sections 624, 625, to town clerk, § 626. 
returns to state superintendent, blanks for, § 453. 
to be made by town superintendents, § 627. 
state superintendent to receipt for, § 627. 
to be made by academies and grammar schools, § 628. 
to be made by certain graded schools, § 629. 
school taxes and school moneys, §§ 630-668. 

SCHOOL DISTRICT TAXES, list On wMch assesscd, of what to consist, § 630. 
persons annexed by vote of one town to district in another to be taxed 

in such district, § 505. 
all expenses of supporting school, above public moneys received, to be 

defrayed by tax on district, § 630. 
tax, may be laid for expenses of scholars sent out of district, §§ 565, 567. 
may be laid to provide place for school, § 525. 
may be laid to meet execution, § 679. 



INDEX. 

SCHOOLS — continued. 

school taxes and. school moneys — continued. 
SCHOOL DISTRICT TAXES — Continued. 

tax, selectmen, may assess to build school house, when, § 531. 

may assess to provide for instruction of scholars, when, § 561. 
when voted, committee to make rate-bill, § 631. 

district may instruct committee to omit poor persons, § 633. 
warrant for collection of, § 631. 

district may allow deduction for payment before day fixed, § 632. 
duty, liability, &c. of collector, in collecting, § 636. 
town collector to collect when laid by selectmen, §§ 561, 531. 
abatement of, by district, § 634. 
board of abatement of, § 635. 
town high or central school district taxes, § 588. 
TOWN SCHOOL TAXES, may be voted by town, § 656. 

selectmen to assess certain tax (state school tax) annually, § 657. 
town liable to forfeiture, if such tax not assessed, § 658. 

grand jury to present, § 660; disposal of forfeiture, § 659. 
selectmen to assess tax annually in towns using town system, § 601. 
TOWN SCHOOL FUND, powers and duties of selectmen as to, §§ 652, 653. 
selectmen may take and execute deeds, in care of, §§ 652, 653. 
tax-payers may take acknowledgment of, or witness such deeds, § 654. 
securities where kept ; account of moneys ; treasurer's duty, § 655. 
UNITED STATES DEPOSIT MONEY, apportionment of, § 640. 

treasurer, to pay over shares to towns electing trustees, § 641. 
to retain and manage shares when, § 645. 

duties in collection of moneys loaned by former treasurer, § 651. 
trustees to receive, manage, and report, § 642. 
trustees to give bond for faithful management of, &c., § 643. 

office vacant if not given, § 643. 
loans of, regulated ; income to be paid to town treasurer, § 644. 
town treasurer's duty as to, § 646. 

income from, to be appropriated to schools, except, § 647. 
towns liable to return, § 648. 

towns how liable for misappropriation of, §§ 649, 650. 
DIVISION OF PUBLIC MONEYS, Selectmen to make, § 661. 
how to be made, § 662. 

moneys to be paid to district treasurers, § 663. 
share, of fractional districts, § 667. 

of union and graded school districts, §§ 666, 662. 
of district sending scholars to academy, § 570. 
of district in which selectmen provide schooling, § 562. 
of district sending scholars out of state, § 567. 
evening session of district school to be reckoned half day, § 678. 
district when denied share, §§ 663, 665. 
public moneys not to be given to sectarian school, § 674. 
statement as to division to be lodged with town clerk, § 668. 
miscellaneous, school day, week and month, § 677. 
session of evening school deemed half day, § 678. 
children under five years not to attend school, § 675. 
children, certain, not having attended school, not to be employed in 

factory, § 673. 
women, right of, in school matters, § 524. 
SECTARIAM" SCHOOLS, money raised by taxes not to be given to, § 674. 
SELECTMEN, to draw orders for pay of town superintendent, § 460. 
to organize school districts on application, §§ 503, 504. 



INDEX. 

SELECTMEN — continued. 

to fill vacancies in certain school district oflSices, § 518. 

to fix location of school house, when, §§ 526-528, 533. 

to order district to build school house, when, §§ 529, 530. 

to build school house on neglect of district ordered to build, § 531. 

duties in appraising school land damages, §§ 534-536. 

to insert in warning article as to dissolving district, when, § 546. 

duties when applied to in case of neglect to provide instruction, § 561. 

how to distribute public moneys in case they provide instruction, § 562. 

to purchase land for town high or central school, § 586. 

to insert in warning article as to adopting town system, when, § 589. 

to appraise property of fractional district, when, § 591. 

to fill vacancy in board of school directors, § 594. 

to assess annual school tax if town uses town system, § 601. 

to insert in warning article as to restoring district system, when, § 605. 

duties as to equalization of property on abolishing town system, § 607. 

to approve bond of trustees of public money, § 643. 

powers and duties in management of town school fund, §§ 652, 653. 

to annually assess state school tax, § 657. 

how to dispose of penalty received for not assessing state school tax, § 659 

duties in making division of school moneys, §§ 661-665. 

to lodge statement as to division of moneys in town clerk's office, § 668. 
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION, election of, § 452. 

vacancy in office of, how filled, § 452. 

duties in general, § 453. 

his report; what to state, § 456. 
contract for printing, § 4556. 
number of copies to be printed, § 457. 
who entitled to copies, § 457. 

to hold teachers' institutes and educational meetings, §§ 454, 455. 

to furnish blanks, §§ 453, 616. 

to furnish registers to town superintendents, §§ 617, 618. 

to appoint and remove teachers in normal schools, § 463. 

to fix courses of study in normal schools, § 464. 

to stop state appropriation unless law as to studies complied with, § 465. 

to regulate normal school examinations, § 466. 

to be member of examining board, § 466. 

to certify whether scholarships have been lawfully granted, § 471. 

to direct as to expenditure of normal school appropriations, §§ 472, 473. 

to make certificates on which appropriations to be drawn, §§ 472, 473. 

to establish courses of study in training schools, § 474. 

to be member of examining board of training school, § 474. 
STATE TREASURER, to apportion U. S. deposit money, § 640. 

duties in collection of deposit moneys loaned by predecessor, § 651. 

to pay shares to towns electing trustees, § 641. 

to manage shares when, § 645. 
STATISTICS, state superintendent to furnish blanks for, § 453. 

town superintendents to return, § 627. 

to be returned by academies and grammar schools, § 628. 

to be returned by certain graded schools, § 629. 
STUDIES, required to be taught in schools, § 558. 

district maintaining more than one school may have higher branches taught, 
§572. 

courses of study in normal schools, §§ 464, 465. 

courses of study in training schools, § 474. 
SUPERINTENDENT. (See Slate Superintendent. Town Superintendent.) 



INDEX. 

T. 

TAX-BILL, prudential committee to make, § 631. 

committee to omit poor persons from, when district so orders, § 633. 
TAXES, 

SCHOOL DISTRICT TAXES, list on wMcli assessed, of what to consist, § 630. 

persons annexed by vote of one town to district in another to be taxed in 

such district, § 505. 
all expenses of supporting school, above public moneys received, to be 

defrayed by tax on district, § 630. 
tax, may be laid for expenses of scholars sent out of district, §§ 565, 567. 
may be laid to provide place for school, § 525. 
may be laid to meet execution, § 679. 
selectmen, may assess to build school house, when, § 531. 

may assess to provide for instruction of scholars, when, § 561. 
when voted, committee to make rate-bill, § 631. 

district may instruct committee to omit poor persons, § 633. 
warrant for collection of, § 631,. 

district may allow deduction for payment before day fixed, § 632. 
duty, &c. of collector, in collecting, § 636. 
town collector to collect when laid by selectmen, §§ 561, 531. 
abatement of, by district, § 634. 
board of abatement of, § 635. 
town high or central school district taxes, § 588. 
TOWN SCHOOL TAXES, may be voted by town, § 656. 

selectmen to assess certain tax (state school tax) annually, § 657. 
town liable to forfeiture, if such tax not assessed, § 658. 

grand jury to present, § 660; disposal of forfeiture, § 659. 
selectmen to assess tax annually in towns using town system, § 601. 
TAX- WARRANT, for collecting district tax, § 631. 
TEACHERS, state certificates, §§ 475, 476. 

county certificates, examinations for, §§ 477-484. 

issuing of; how long in force, § 482. 
town certificates, examinations for, § 487. 

issuing of, § 488 ; how long in force, § 491. 

of what superintendent obtained for fractional district, §§ 501, 502. 
of whom obtained when no town superintendent, § 489. 
of whom town superintendent may obtain one, § 490. 
list of, granted, to be lodged in clerk's office, § 492. 
chairman of school board may grant, § 595. 
holding state or county certificate to notify superintendent, &c., § 493. 
must have certificate, or contract for teaching void, § 494. 

exception in case of principal teacher, §§ 494, 496. 
certificate of, may be revoked or annulled ; effect, §§ 497,498. 
if without certificate, district not entitled to public moneys, § 665. 
if without certificate, committee liable for moneys paid to, § 495. 
prudential committee to appoint, agree with and remove, § 515. 
school directors to appoint under town system, § 597. 
to procure registers from district clerk, § 620. 
entitled to wages only on pi*esenting clerk's certificate that register is properly 

filled, § 621. 
in normal schools, how appointed, § 463. 
training school for instruction of, § 474. 
TEACHERS' INSTITUTES, and educational meetings, §§ 454, 455. 
TEXT-BOOKS, for schools, committee to select, how constituted, § 609. 
duties of committee; report to be printed and distributed, § 610. 
use of books not recommended, unlawful, § 611; authorized selection, § 615. 



INDEX. 

TEXT-BOOKS — continued. 

selection of what town to rule in fractional districts, §§ 501, 502. 
scholars to be provided with books by school authorities when, § 612. 
price of books to be added to parents', &c. tax, § 613. 
towns may keep text-books for use in schools, § 614. 
TOWK", may by vote divide its territory into school districts, § 499. 
may set inhabitants to disti'ict in adjoining town or gore, § 505. 
may alter school districts, § 545. 
may abolish districts and adopt town system, § 589. 
may abolish town system and restore districts, § 605. 
may establish high or central schools, and fix bounds of districts, § 579. 
forming high or central schools, to have powers of union districts, § 579. 
to fix compensation of school directox's, § 600. 
to pay compensation of town superintendent, § 460. 
may vote additional compensation to superintendent, § 4541. 
to elect text-book committee, § 609. 
may purchase and hold text-books, § 614. 
may vote tax for support of schools, § 656. 
may borrow U. S. deposit money, § 644. 
entitled to scholarship in normal school, § 467. 
TOWN AGENT, to sue prudential committee for sums paid unlicensed teacher, 

§ 495. 
TOWN" CLERK, to distribute state superintendent's report, § 457. 

to record numbers, descriptions and alterations in school districts, § 500. 

proceedings of selectmen in building school house, &c., § 532. 

proceedings of selectmen in taking lands for schools, § 536. 

justices' order of dissolution of fractional district, § 547. 

county judges' return on division of district property, § 555. 
TOWN SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, 
term of office, § 458 ; fees, § 4540; town to pay, § 460. 
towns may vote extra compensation to, § 4541. 
account for services, § 460 ; duplicate filed with town clerk, § 461. 
to visit schools ; duties in general, § 459. 
of which town to visit school in fractional district, § 501. 
his measures to govern if in conflict with committee's, § 515. 
may appoint and recommend for normal scholarships, §§ 468, 469. 
annual county meeting of superintendents, § 485. 

to decide on and have printed examination questions, § 486. 

to elect county examining board, § 477. 

secretary of meeting to make return of names, § 477. 
duties of superintendent as member of examining board, §§ 477, 484. 
each to hold two public examinations annually, § 487. 
may examine teachers at any time, § 487. 
fee for examining at other than public examination, § 487. 
to grant certificates, § 488. 

may grant certificates to teach in adjoining town, when, § 489. 
of which town to grant certificates for fractional district, §§ 501, 502. 
when office vacant, superintendent of adjoining town may license, § 489. 
wishing to teach, of what superintendent to get certificate, § 490. 
certificates granted by, how long in force, § 491. 
• to make returns as to certificates granted, § 492. 

to lodge list of certificates granted, in clerk's office, § 492. 
teachers having state and county certificates, to notify, &c., § 493. 
may revoke and annul certificates, §§ 497, 498. 
to be member of text-book committee, § 609. 

to have printed and distribute committee's report, § 610. 

to charge for expense so incurred, in his account, § 610. 



INDEX. 

TOWN SUPERINTENDENT OP SCHOOLS — continued. 

to supply scholars with text-books, when, § 612. 
to notify listers when scholars so supiJlied, § 613. 
to receive registers from state superintendent, § 617. 
on receiving to forward receipt, § 618. 
not receiving to notify state superintendent, § 618. 
to distribute registers, § 619. 

to make entries and certificate in register when returned to him, § 623.. 
to return register to town clerk, when, § 623. 

duty as to making returns, &c., in case of fractional district, §§ 624, 626. 
to fill blanks for statistics, and return, § 627. 
entitled to copy of state superintendent's report, § 457. 
chairman of school board to have powers and duties of, § 595. 
TOWN SYSTEM, 

abolishing districts, and dividing district property, §§ 589-593. 

board of school directors, to be elected when districts abolished, § 594. 

term of office of; vacancies, § 594. 

chairman, election ; powers of, § 595. 

clerk of, appointment, duties, § 596. 

general powers of, § 597. 

power as to school houses, § 603. 

may receive students from other towns, § 598. 

may provide for schooling of scholars in adjoining town, § 566. 

to be text-book committee, § 609. 

to notify parent, &c., if child not furnished text-books, § 612. 

to furnish text-books when parents, &c. neglect, § 612. 

to notify listers of names of parents, &c. in such case, § 613. 

to make annual report and exhibit of warrants drawn, § 599. 

compensation of members, § 600. 
selectmen to assess school tax, § 601. 
• treasurer to keep account of school moneys and pay warrants, § 602. 
towns to provide school houses, § 603. 
provisions not to apply to certain graded school districts unless, § 604. 

nor to fractional districts, unless, § 604. 
town system, how abolished; proceedings on abolishment, §§ 605-608. 
TOWN TREASURER, 

to keep separate account of moneys of town school fund, § 655. 
to give credit in account of school fund for income of deposit money, § 646. 
to keep separate account of school moneys in towns using town system, § 602. 
to pay warrants of members of board of school directors, § 602. 
to be treasurer of town high or central district; duties as such, § 585. 
TRAINING SCHOOL department of graded schools, §§ 474-476. 

returns by, § 629. 
TREASURER, school district; election, § 508; union district, § 576. 
vacancies in office of, how filled, § 518. 
to be member of board for abatement of taxes, § 635. 
general duties, § 514. 

prudential committee to draw orders on, § 638. 
collector to submit tax-book to, &c., on committee's request, § 637. 
taxes collected to be paid to, §§ 631, 636. 

(See State Treasurer. Town Treasurer.) 
TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC MONEY, duties, §§ 642-644. 



INDEX. 

UNION SCHOOL, districts; formation, powers, § 573. 

school house liovv located, § 573. 

schools to be kept in uniting districts, § 674. 

union school, who may attend, § 574. 

meetings, § 575; officers, §§ 576, 577. 

hoard for abatement of taxes, § 635. 

districts how to unite with, or withdraw from union, § 578. 

share of public moneys, §§ 662, 666. 

principals not required to have certificates, § 496. 
UNITED STATES DEPOSIT MONEY, §§ 639-651. (See Schools.) 
UNORGANIZED TOWN, mode of organizing school district in, § 504. 

district in, entitled to share of U. S. deposit money, § 640. 
treasurer to retain and manage share, § 645. 

y. 

VACANCIES, in office of state superintendent, how filled, § 452. 

in school district offices, how filled, § 518. 

in office of prudential committee of town high or central school, § 583. 
VOTERS, iu school district meeting, who are, §§ 523, 524. 

right to vote when challenged, how determined, § 523. 

WARNING, of school district meeting, requisites of, § 521. 

who to warn meetings, § 519. 

penalty for neglect to w^arn, § 520. 
WARRANT, for collection of tax in common school district, § 631. 

for collection of tax iu town high or central district, § 588. 
WEEK, school week, § 677. 
WOMEN, rights of, in school matters, § 524. 

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YEAR, school year, § 677. 



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